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TIL The Veterans Administration lobotomized over 1900 veterans of World War II

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WZOB TIL The biggest squid ever caught weighed an estimated 990 pounds and about 39 feet long. If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires
7rQOX TIL when Alexander the Great conquered Persia from Darius III he stole his mother. After kidnapping her, she become to devoted to Alexander, while he referred to her as “mother,” and when called on to mourn Darius III she said “I have only one son [Alexander] and he is king of all Persia.”
Moma TIL: The cost to own a Bugatti Veyron (aside from the $2.5 M USD price tag) is $300k a year.
OBYL TIL that the highest and lowest rated movies that Nicolas Cage is in came out in the same exact year. Also, that he’s credited with being apart of 75 movies in only 31 years, just about 2.5 movies per year.
kwv1 TIL there was a street artist in Brazil, that painted skulls in Sao Paolo tunnels with stencils and a pressure washer, forcing the city to clean the tunnels to remove the artwork.