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GY0g1 TIL that Norm Macdonald's famous 'Moth Joke' was mostly improvised on the spot when he realised he had been booked for an additional segment on Conan for which he had not prepared, turning an old classic 20 second joke into a long drawn out domestic moth tragedy to fill the time.
kA9m TIL a professor at Princeton found that our brains sometimes process images of people who are poor or homeless as if they were not humans but things.
a8PMy TIL There is a fifth symbol on the inner sleeve of Led Zeppelin's fourth album, chosen by Sandy Denny who sang with Robert Plant on the track "The Battle Of Evermore"
JWYV TIL that a sentry assigned to guard Napoleon’s house in Austria did not recognise him and threatened to stab him with his bayonet. The next day, he was awarded the Legion of Honor by Napoleon for doing his job so well.
J1XKj TIL about the phenomena of polyandry or “wife-sharing” in Qing Dynasty China. Due to practices such female infanticide and concubinage there was an overall gender imbalance in society that poor husbands would exploit via renting their wives out to other, unmarried men for a fee.