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TIL a documentary film called “My Kid Could Paint That”, which was supposed to be about a child painting prodigy, turned into an investigative piece when it turned out her parents were likely producing “her” artwork

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GYxp4 TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.
gM607 TIL that if it were not for the vacuum in space, the roaring of the sun - which would equate to roughly 100 decibels (the equivalent to a chainsaw's volume in close proximity) - would leave all us Earthlings deaf within the course of a day.
1kjV TIL in 1997 former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial.
d8k8r TIL of The Silurian Hypothesis, which is a thought experiment that assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps several million years ago.
WwlB TIL The first person to hear Journey’s “Only the Young” was terminally ill, 16 year old Kenny Sykaluk, who died the next day still holding the Walkman in his hand