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TIL that wild fans have been a thing at least since the 1800s when composer Lizst had to keep a dog so he can cut its hair to keep up with the demand for his hair locks

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kJGYm TIL there is still no scientific consensus for why "the dress" appears as either white-and-gold or black-and-blue
WkBdY TIL that the coconut crab, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate, is also the largest hermit crab species.
vmNL TIL Charles Manson, hoping to incite racial wars, stole his victim’s wallet and had it planted in the restroom of a gas station in what he thought was a black neighborhood; instead of inciting Helter Skelter as he had hoped, it lay there for months until discovered by a cleaning attendant.
YAkx TIL of the Yaghan word “Mamihlapinatapai”; the world’s hardest to translate word which allegedly means “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin”
rL0 TIL that the U.S. and China consume the same amount of energy. Yet China’s population is 1,338,300,000 where as the U.S. population is 311,591,917.