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OG7XL TIL Cambodia is probably the only country in the world that went from monarchy to communism and then back to monarchy
mLQO TIL that Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin learned to fence both left- and right-handed and performed all of the fencing in the sword fight scene for The Princess Bride
R507w TIL that the name for the band Devo comes from the concept of "de-evolution" and the band's related idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind had begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society.
kgr7 TIL AI researchers put a worm’s mind in a Lego body and it reacted to it’s environments without any programming. Only mapping the Neurons…
oRJ4o TIL the discoverer of the coelacanth, naturalist Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, had to fight with the taxi driver, the museum curator, the morgue director (it was summer), and the cold storage supervisor. Then the taxidermist botched the job, and the photo film fell into the mud and got destroyed.