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TIL, the color, magenta, is a fabrication of human psychology.

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b9va7 TIL that deceased Tibetan Buddhists are given a “sky burial” in which the body is folded in half, walked to the burial site on someone’s back, and then dismembered and fed to vultures. There is no wood for a cremation, and the ground is too hard to dig due to the high altitude they live in.
e0mKJ TIL in the movie "Home Alone" the producers thought it would be too mean to use a real girl for the pic of Buzz’s unattractive girlfriend so they used the art director’s son
GYxNJ TIL that the Soviets won the battle of Stalingrad by breaching Nazi flanks and attacking the Stalingrad from behind. The name of this operation? Operation Uranus.
x85B TIL that Jews are not allowed to enter Saudi Arabia
d895d TIL the Kinabalu giant red leech (Mimobdella buettikoferi) is a large bright orange-red colored leech that is endemic to Borneo. It can grow to a length of over 50 cm (20 in). In the comments, this huge flesh-eating leech can be seen ingesting a giant earthworm like spaghetti.