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TIL there are more statues of lions in the world than there are actual lions

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rR9Q4 TIL a small town in southern Kyoto, Japan has a yearly festival and monument next to a shrine dedicated to Thomas Edison. He used the bamboo from the town Yawata for his filament in the lightbulbs which increased the use time from 40 hours to 1,000
jPNp TIL brown eyes are actually blue under a layer of melanin
e0ed6 TIL Dreams are caused by the random firing of neurons in the cerebral cortex during the REM period. The forebrain then creates a story in an attempt to reconcile and make sense of the nonsensical sensory information presented to it.
n1bB TIL: The FTC says all Homeopathic “medicine” must label that they do not work.
xVZXo TIL that 100 million Americans (~30%) are currently hosting a parasite.