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TIL that you likely have thousands of mites living on your face right now. The males crawl out of your pores at night to find a female and have sex on your face.

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ZNDa TIL during the Siege of Leningrad, the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra played Tchaikovsky’s 5th at a performance to boost morale. During the 2nd Movement, bombs started to fall nearby. The orchestra never stopped playing and continued to the last note.
EpDx TIL that the opposite of paranoia is called Pronoia - believing in the existence of a conspiracy to help the person.
4kA8X TIL thanks to tree rings, we know global cooling caused piracy.
LkdyQ TIL The classic scene in Wayne's World where Garth dances to Jimi Hendrix - 'Foxy Lady' in the diner was improvised. Director: Myers & Carvey were always trying to one-up each other. The dance was not in the script. Just a zoom on Garth's face was planned, but Carvey says, “How about if I do this?”
yOLa TIL most of the “facts” about Nostradamus are false, his astrologies were false with lots of errors, he did not predict his own death correctly as it was his secretary who edited it after his death, etc.