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TIL that most butterfly’s depicted in art are shown as dead
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TIL the Roman Catholic Church hired castrati, young boy vocalists who were castrated to prevent puberty allowing them to sing soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto well into their 40s. The practice started in the mid-1500s, reached its height in 1730, and ended in 1903. The last castrati died in 1922
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TIL There is a pagoda built in 1049 from the Chinese Song dynasty and it has experienced 38 earthquakes, six floods and many other disasters, but it remains intact after almost 1000 years
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TIL about the death of Mary Jane Barker. She was a 4-year-old who disappeared alongside her friend Maria Freitta's dog in February 1957. In March, Maria found her corpse alongside the still-alive dog in a closet in a new vacant house near the Freittas' house.
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TIL Comedian Drew Carey tried to kill himself when he was 18 in Las Vegas. He recalled being homeless, was selling his plasma for $40, and looked for spare change to buy boxed macaroni and cheese. “All I had was water, no butter. That is some bad macaroni and cheese.”
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TIL about Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.