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TIL: Cheese doesn't grow in the ground, it's actually made from milk

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DQxaj TIL The story of Jeronimus Cornelisz : a litteral sociopath took advantage of a mutiny and a shipwreck in 1629 to establish a brutal dictatorship on a desert island, leading to the murder of 124 surviving men, women and children.
jNKnX TIL Disney's Space Mountain uses fans to blow air on you to create the illusion that you are going faster than you really are.
jNLBa TIL the reason a clock is used as a metaphor for how close we are to extinction in the Doomsday Clock is that a clock implies a countdown and suggests that destruction will naturally occur unless someone takes action to stop it.
rN4Mx TIL that a "Silent Man" in the UK repeatedly gets arrested for standing on a certain road to block traffic. He never speaks a word, not even to the court or his own lawyer. Everytime he is released, he repeats the crime and remains completely silent.
YpDeW TIL That Lewis Caroll was a conservative mathematician, and wrote many scenes in Alice in Wonderland with the intention of being satiracal representations of other mathematicians at the time