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TIL that Estonia is one of the least religious countries in the world - only 18% believe in a god

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oBKkR TIL about a poisonous lagoon at an abandoned quarry that was dyed black because the water's naturally tropical blue colour was considered too inviting to swimmers.
67kQ TIL when a bee dies near the hive, “undertaker bees” will carry its desiccated body at least 150 ft. away
VMogQ TIL that Johnny Cash's estate had to turn down an ad campaign to use Ring of Fire for hemorrhoid-relief medication
R99a TIL when Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.
XExmr TIL that all-time great director Andrei Tarkovsky dismissed colour film as a gimmick, saying that in everyday life one does not consciously notice colours most of the time, and that films in colour are like moving paintings or photographs, which are too beautiful to be a realistic depiction of life