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TIL the fat and round “Laughing Buddha” isn’t a depiction of Gauthama Buddha at all, but of a Chinese deity called “Budai”

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g8Ly TIL Montreal has musical swing sets downtown. When in motion, they produce sounds. If you can sync all 3 swings, it creates a song.
Oj7X TIL Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first WWF persona was Rocky Maivia, a face (good guy). The audience rejected him due to his cheesy character, with chants of “Die, Rocky, die!”. After this, he became a heel (villain), referring to himself in the third person as “The Rock” and insulting the audience.
VWZ4 TIL Uzbekistan executed two men by boiling them alive… in 2002
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