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TIL that Kansas is demonstrably flatter than a pancake

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jJ8n TIL: Having a building in NYC designated as a “Landmark” puts so many restrictions on it that owners will knock their buildings down as soon as they hear the Landmark Commission is interested in it.
EMgp TIL that mosh pits rotate in a counterclockwise fashion because they follow rules of collective motion much in the same way you see murmuration with a flock of birds
l7KAr TIL Guinness trademarked the harp as its logo in 1876, so when Ireland gained independence in 1922 it had mirror Guinness’s design to use the harp as a symbol.
R7Z69 TIL that the Tyrannosaurus Rex didn’t roar but rather they would make a low, almost grumble noise and use the vibrations from that noise to communicate, this is because they were actually stealthy hunters and would wait in the wooded areas and stalk their prey. Use headphones to listen to the video
DQdrV TIL Nero the fifth emperor of Rome, kicked his pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina, to death. He then found a lookalike of her, a young boy, castrated him and tried to make him his wife.