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TIL there’s a lake in Senegal with bright pink water
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TIL that the symptoms of the mental disorder called Koro involve an intense fear that one’s genitals are fatally retracting into one’s body. It is most common among Asians
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TIL: 1957 Chevrolets continued to be built for many years after 1957 - in Turkey
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TIL in 1972 a note left in a locker at JFK Airport demanded payment or bombs would go off on 4 TWA planes leaving that day. Police found one bomb but cleared the other TWA flights. The next day a bomb exploded on a TWA plane at McCarran Airport in Vegas - it was one of the planes cleared to leave NY
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TIL author Ian Fleming was so horrified at the prospect of his impending marriage that he wrote a book to distract himself. In 2 months he finished CASINO ROYALE, the first in a series about a spy named James Bond.
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TIL of the Hockey-Falco thesis which says the renaissance realist painters used devices made with mirrors and pinholes to project an image of the subject onto a canvas, the painter would then simply trace over the image to make the painting. It's also used to forge famous paintings.