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Z8rko TIL about the mysterious worldwide epidemic of Encephalitis lethargica. The disease attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless. Between 1915 and 1926, 500,000 dead or incapacitated from it. It disappeared as mysteriously as it came in to the world.
4k84X TIL that a T-Rex is historically closer to an ipod than to Stegosaurus.
846a TIL during the scene for the 2008 film Cloverfield in which the head of the Statue of Liberty falls onto a city street, the head’s size is larger than its actual size in real life. Originally it was made properly to scale, but test audiences complained it looked too small and unrealistic.
ZpAZQ TIL: There was a hippie paradise in Nepal and weed was legal there before 1973 after which the USA forced Nepal to criminalise Cannabis.
m1wGx TIL Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was first cousins with six other European monarchs: King George V (UK), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany), King Haakon VII and Queen Maud (Norway), King Christian X (Denmark), and King Constantine I (Greece).