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TIL King Charles VI of France really believed he was made out of glass.

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Dy6Y TIL that a 2009 study at two North American universities concluded that Shania Twain’s face possesses the ‘golden ratio'—or perfect distances—between a woman’s eyes and mouth that determines whether she is thought to be beautiful
yVDxw TIL Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was psychologically scarred by his failure to complete "Smile", the band's follow-up to 1966's "Pet Sounds". After he premiered the finished album in 2004, to a 10-minute standing ovation, he rocked back and forth on-stage, exclaiming to a band mate: "We did it!"
P1jxG TIL that on the Ides of March 1953 there was an attempt to contact extraterrestrials via mass telepathic transmission of a welcome message. Later the message became the basis for a song by the group Klaatu which was then covered by pop group The Carpenters
R77wa TIL that German-British Jewish historian Edgar Feuchtwanger had Hitler as a neighbor during his childhood. Mr. Feuchtwanger is still alive today.
womD7 TIL about the "Rabbit Test," a human pregnancy test developed in 1931, in which urine from a female human would be injected into a female rabbit. The rabbit would be dissected and if its ovaries were enlarged then the human was likely pregnant (~98% certainty). The test was used into the 1970s.