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TIL China has cities that were made to look like Paris, London, Venice and many more

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PYv7g TIL that Gilles de Rais, known for being a former ally of Joan of Arc who was executed for occultism and murdering 600 children, may have been the victim of a plot by the Catholic Church and/or the French state. No corpses were found at his estate and the prosecutor used the trial to seize his land.
epO4 TIL that the average male produces around 14 gallons of ejaculate in his lifetime.
ryJx TIL: Phantom time hypothesis states that historical events between AD 614 and 911 are either wrongly dated or didn’t occur at all.
E1MoX TIL of the Pioneer Plaque, a pair of plaques sent on the Pioneer spacecrafts that included a naked man, a naked woman, and a diagram representing the origin of the spacecraft. The plaque was designed to transmit information to potential aliens who might intercept Pioneer 10 and 11.
M7BDb TIL the lead singer of Toto (famous for the hit song "Africa") is the son of famous movie score composer John Williams ("Indiana Jones", "Star Wars", "ET", "Jaws", "Jurassic Park")