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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci stole dead bodies to better understand human anatomy

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byja TIL when the face of Italian fashion model Fabio, which has graced the cover of hundreds of romance novels, got struck by a goose on a roller coaster, he refused to sue, saying that he was not interested in profiting from the accident, but only wanted the park to install proper safety measures.
pYGbN TIL Canada also had American-style "Sundown Towns" like Leamington, Ontario, "where Black people would face violence or harassment if they were in public after dark"
Z8BKo TIL that psychopaths show immunity to "contagious yawning", where seeing someone else yawn makes you yawn as well.
4rYa TIL there is an episode of Dexter’s Laboratory called “Rude Removal”, in which Dexter and DeDe’s niceness and rudeness turn into two separate people. The many swear words used by the rude clones caused this episode not to be aired, but it is available to stream online.
Wkm09 TIL The Sopranos creators were often contacted by the FBI and told that actual mobsters, whose conversations were picked up by wiretaps, had plenty to say about the show. They considered the show's portrayal of the mob life so dead-on, they thought one of their own was was working on the inside.