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TIL Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out

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4lON TIL that the Schizophrenic artist Bryan Charnley painted self-portraits for years representing his descent into madness, until his suicide in 1991
5VXA8 TIL Many popular food dishes and food brands you’d find throughout the U.S, are outright banned in other countries.
awl50 TIL: Genghis Khan had the greatest positive impact on the environment of this planet, his murderous Mongol armies were responsible for the massacre of as many as 40 million people, which actually helped scrub about 700 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.
ML07 TIL While making the album “Nevermind,” There was concern about the nude baby on the cover being too inappropriate. Cobain then said he would just add a sticker on the penis saying “If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile.”
5gZQ TIL that in 1863, Jules Verne wrote “Paris in the 20th Century,” a manuscript which predicted everything from glass skyscrapers to feminism to a statistical rise in illegitimate births; his publisher advised him against publishing it as it “broke no new ground” and was “unbelievable”