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9wPVQ TIL Orson Welles once accidentally pelted his audience with arrows. Welles was doing Henry the Fifth in Boston and had set the archers to shoot offstage, but it was a rotating stage. Welles had noticed the problem but expected the Harvard students to not foolishly shoot into the crowd, he was wrong.
R7y18 TIL between 6,000 & 9,000 years ago, the people of the Levant decorated the skulls of their dead with plaster, gave them shells for eyes, and painted intricate details of hair and moustaches on them. It's not known why.
1gaV TIL that Bill Nye isn’t a physicist. He’s a mechanical engineer!
Y80B TIL Eli Lilly, the company behind the SSRI antidepressant Prozac, hid its clinical trials from the FDA that showed patients who took Prozac were 12 times more likely to commit suicide compared to older antidepressants.
ZQnY TIL that a 2015 study found that people posting duck face pictures are more likely to be associated with neuroticism and emotional instability.