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TIL an Italian restaurant owner boosted business by asking for tons of negative reviews to get around Yelp's positive review blocking practices

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LkLB9 TIL A guy by the name of Diego Fazio can create mind blowing, hyper realistic drawings with just pencils.
wdBo TIL the rapper Fatman Scoop and his wife have made over 100 episodes of a YouTube sex education show for teenagers who won’t get proper education through their parents or school
0D7N TIL that during the Japanese invasion of China, two soldiers challenged each other to kill 100 people using only a sword. Since both surpassed 100 in the heat of battle without a clear winner, they decided to raise the challenge to 150 people.
GYJNG TIL of the 'Voyager Golden Records' - phonograph records attached to both Voyager spacecraft. The records contain sounds and images e.g. waves breaking, chosen to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them.
Yw9A TIL that in 1254 Möngke Khan, grandson of Genghis, hosted a religious debate between Christian, Muslim and Buddhist theologians. The debate ended with the Buddhists sitting silently as the Christian and Muslim debaters sang loudly at each other. Then they all got drunk.