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kOPV4 TIL the makeup process for 'The Grinch' was so grueling, Jim Carrey had to meet with an expert who trained CIA operatives to deal with torture
jN1an TIL that a woman’s skull was unearthed in David Attenborough’s back garden, solving a 130 year old murder mystery.
lZxN TIL the Yapese use large stone “coins” for money which can weigh up to 8,800 lbs. Rather than move them, they usually just keep track of who the owner is. When one was lost at sea, people continued to “trade” it even though it was never recovered, since they all agreed it must still exist.
v8vL TIL Internet trolls are likely to be sadists, narcissists, or psychopaths, studies show. One of the studies found that the link between sadism and Internet trolling is so strong that trolls could be described as “prototypical everyday sadists.”
4xjJ TIL Roger Babson, the first economic forecaster to predict the 1929 crash and Great Depression, thought of gravity as his sworn enemy and tried to get rid of it.