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TIL posting about the most dangerous man alive; Semion Mogilevich, is exhausting, and I just wanted to share.

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jNK4v TIL Shrunken heads are made using only the (skin) off the head. Not the skull at all. They basically take the SKIN off the head and wrap it around a piece of wood, rock etc to keep the shape of the head.
nWeDP TIL: The "Chinese" take-out box originated from a need for an inexpensive, watertight package that can safely carry oysters home.
vBZ7 TIL The clinically depressed mind is hyperactive as opposed to inactive. Symptoms of depression such as anxiety, poor attention and concentration, and memory issues are linked to hyperactivity.
BrVok TIL Laurence Fishburne was only fourteen years old when shooting of Apocalypse Now began in March 1976, as he had lied about his age in order to get cast in his role. The film took so long to finish that Fishburne was seventeen (as his character) by the time of the release.
Z8n1G TIL: Anarcho-primitivism is a political ideology that advocates a return to non-"civilized" ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization and abandonment of large-scale organization technologies. Or...devolution.