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TIL differences in camera lenses can cause people to be more or less photogenic in pictures.

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4XleR TIL that the Water Boatman insect uses its penis to make a 99.2 decibel mating call, making it, pound for pound, the loudest creature on Earth.
R5N4Q TIL that until the early 1920s, most astronomers thought that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the Universe. Following the 1920 Great Debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Doust Curtis, observations by Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies.
awPJZ TIL “that there is a girls school built on the place where Taliban had their headquarters in Northwest Pakistan”
x61vD TIL Before becoming an international sensation The Beatles were rejected by Decca records because their executives thought guitar groups are on the way out.
neYVP TIL about Lepersonnite, an extremely rare rare earth mineral only found in Shinkolobwe deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the only mineral in which the chemical element Gadolinium, otherwise too reactive to exist, is found in nature. 400 tonnes of Gadolinium are produced yearly.