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TIL about the early Victorian belief that the jarring motion of the train could drive sane people mad or trigger violent outbursts.

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1DoX TIL when Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was sifting through the garbage, Diogenes responded,“I am looking for the bones of your father but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves.”
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bGgQ TIL Russian criminal and prisoners would get large chest and back tattoos of Stalin and Lenin, not out of respect, but to avoid having internal organs damaged during beatings by guards who would not denigrate the images.
6rrw TIL Shia LaBeouf once said The Kingdom of Crystal Skull dropped the ball on Indiana Jones legacy. His relationship with Steven Spielberg had been ruined since then, with Spilberg saying to LaBeouf: “There’s a time to be a human being and have an opinion, and there’s a time to sell cars.”
d8vK8 TIL of a 1993 proposal to build a giant advertising billboard in outer space that would appear roughly the same size and brightness as the moon. The project didnt meet funding and inspired a bill to ban all advertisement in outer space.