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TIL that the idea that snakes “size up” their pray before eating them is a myth

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AJaa TIL that one of the earliest stories featuring time travel is from a Japanese legend called Urashima Tarō. It is about a fisherman who stays in an undersea palace for 3 days,only to return home and find out that 300 years has passed.
yVkev TIL that Skandar Keynes, who played Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia, is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Darwin.
KOMdQ TIL Anatoly Moskvin, a Russian necropolist, was arrested in 2011 for having the mummified remains of 26 young girls in his apartment. His parents, who shared an apartment with him, confused them for large dolls as he had dressed them up and mummified them himself.
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