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TIL Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

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DpMD TIL That the song Capt. Jean Luc Picard listened to when he thought the ship (and the entire United Federation of Planets) was lost to the Borg in the movie “First Contact” was about a sailor in the Trojan War who was worried he’d never see home again.
X0a7j TIL when researchers removed eyebrows from pictures of familiar faces, it reduced the chances of recognition substantially, and significantly more than removing the eyes themselves.
0d4aj TIL that Oxford Is older than the Aztec Empire.
worW6 TIL Koala bears can get Chlamydia!
womnY TIL about The Great Tantra Challenge, a live event in which Sanal Edamaruku, an Indian skeptic, challenged a tantrik to kill him with only magic. After multiple failed attempts, the tantrik claimed Sanal was under the protection of a powerful god, to which Sanal replied that he was an atheist.