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TIL That There Is A Man In Spain, Building A Cathedral By Hand Since 1961

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ZpWmB TIL that imcdb.org, a wiki dedicated to identifying vehicles in movies and TV shows, has a massive collection of over 100,000 vehicle entries and has been active since 2006.
5PlD TIL the word ‘paparazzi’ is derived from the Italian term for a very large mosquito.
b6jQ0 TIL that between 1230 and 1561, many English towns had a street called “Gropecunt Lane,” named after prostitution centered on those areas. Many of these streets have since been renamed to “Grape Lane.”
aBRL TIL There are bugs who decorate themselves with the corpses of their consumed prey.
xoeD TIL that the phrase ‘cellar door’ was determined by experts to be the most euphonious phrase, or pleasant sounding, in all of English.