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TIL Hans Zimmer scored the Boss Baby
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TIL During the Prohibition Act, the government poisoned industrial alcohol in order to scare off bootleggers. As a result, around 10,000 people died until the Prohibition was repealed.
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TIL that in 2009, a Latvian company offered short-term loans of up to $500, with the clients signing their immortal soul as collateral. The company said they wouldn't employ debt collectors to get its money back: "If they don’t give it back, what can you do? They won’t have a soul, that’s all"
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TIL our brain has shrunk over the past 20,000 years. On top of the gradual effects of modernisation on our brain size, chronic stress and anxiety will, if not attended to, shrink your brain further and far more rapidly than you might imagine.
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TIL Goya's most well known painting, Saturn Devouring his Son, was not described or named at all to the public by the artist himself. The name was given later on due to it resembling the mythological event. For all we know, it could not be Saturn at all, but just someone eating another person.
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TIL that Ghanaian soccer player Mohammed Anas accidentally thanked both his wife and his girlfriend in a speech after a match.