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TIL There are more statues of lions in the world than there are real lions.

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4XDLa TIL that alexythymia is a rare condition where the person is unable to describe his feelings and is often associated with autism and depression.
7n0b TIL that after his execution, Sir Walter Raleigh’s wife had his head embalmed and carried it around with her for the rest of her life
E10RX TIL the Ebola Virus should be called Yambuku fever, since that was the village in Zaire where it was identified in 1976 by Peter Piot, a Belgian scientist. Piot decided to name it after the river Ebola, 60 miles from Yambuku, to avoid stigmatizing the village by giving its name to a deadly disease.
R7k19 TIL A clock is being built inside a mountain in Texas that will keep time for 10,000 years with minimal to no human interaction. One of the reasons for building the clock is to get people to think long term.
KYGBw TIL about Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Jewish Hungarian-born adventure and convicted con artist who lived as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British M.P., German politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.