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TIL that LoZ: Link's Awakening was heavily inspired by Twin Peaks

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AoQ4 TIL that after 9/11, the Department of Justice spent $8,000 on blue drapes that hide nude statues added to the Great Hall in the 1930’s. The Spirit of Justice statue has a single breast completely exposed.
e0MQL TIL there have been at least 5 different Battles of Thermopylae aside from the one famously fought between the Greeks and Persians (popularized by "300") in 480 BC. The most recent of these battles was between the ANZACs and the Wermacht in 1941.
l68K TIL sea cucumbers move and hunt in herds.
BrDZy TIL that the fashion designer Hugo Boss was an early member of the nazi party from 1931,2 years before hitler came to power. His company produced uniforms for the SS, SA and Hitler Youth and used forced labour from Polish and French prisoners-of-war.
Meybb TIL humans can't actually smell metal. Instead, whenever we touch metals it is a reaction between oils on our skin and the metals which we are smelling.