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TIL that Neanderthals’ voices were actually high-pitched and nasal, not deep and baritone like many assume.

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8ylb TIL that creating a Death Star would cost roughly $850,000,000,000,000,000 and that it would take about 833,000 years to build. It would also need a laser of 1,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms worth of matter to have enough energy to destroy a planet for each time it was fired.
WPWY TIL in 2006, American sculptor Luis Jiménez was killed when the head of his “Blue Mustang” sculpture fell on him and severed an artery in his leg. The Blue Mustang, nicknamed “Blucifer”, is 32 feet tall, weighs 9000 lb., and is currently on display at Denver International Airport.
DEPr TIL Roger Deakins, Director Of Photography for films like Skyfall and No Country For Old Men stopped shooting documentaries because he witnessed a schizophrenic woman have an episode and his parter wanted to keep filming. Deakins instead decided to put the camera down and help the woman.
Zm9Q TIL that “fishy vagina smell” may actually come from the same organic compound found in fish.
nePPb TIL that the Titanic was a part of 3 large ships called Olympic Class by a company called White Star, looking forward to compete with what at the moment we’re the largest vessels in the world. 2 out of the 3 sunk in less than 1 year (with the Titanic as everyone knows, sinking in the first travel)