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TIL that “The Lion Eating Poet in the Stone Den” is a Chinese poem in which every word is pronounced “shi.” It is readable in Chinese, but incomprehensible when spoken or when written in the Latin alphabet.

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5YGGn TIL Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard along with NASA Scientist Jack Parsons went to the desert with the purpose of creating a Human Body for an entity called Babalon. This is known in history books as The Babalon Working.
8eEW8 TIL Wilt Chamberlain had 118 50+ point games in his NBA career. He also had more 50-point games in the 1961-62 season than any other player has had in their entire career.
gr6xL TIL Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have ever visited the ice giants Uranus and Neptune
lVvr TIL that the United States is one of only 8 countries experiencing an increase in maternal deaths due to complications of childbirth: the rate has more than doubled in the last 30 years.
j6w0v TIL the view popularized by Carl Sagan that the brain is layered, with an old reptilian structure at its core, is a widespread misconception in psychology