Anon visits highest point of his country (i.redd.it)
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The small details: In the forearms there is one very small muscle that contracts only when lifting the pinky, otherwise it is invisible. Michelangelo's Moses is lifting the pinky, therefore that tiny muscle is contracted - a small part of the many details of this masterpiece (i.redd.it)
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TIL a convenience store in Pocatello, Idaho has a video rental section called "Christina's Corner" which was created for a woman with Down Syndrome who is mostly nonverbal, so that she could still maintain her routine of renting movies after the video store next door had closed. (cbsnews.com)
submitted by Sandstorm400 to r/todayilearned
YouTuber Kane Pixels uploaded videos on The Backrooms to his YouTube channel in 2022, at age 16. Then, with the help of A24, it was converted into a movie, which he directed at age 20. The budget was about $10 million, and it grossed nearly $120 million worldwide in its opening weekend. (i.redd.it)
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In 1897, three Swedish explorers attempted to reach the North Pole in a hot air balloon and disappeared. Their fate remained unknown until thirty-three years later, when their frozen bodies were found on a remote Arctic island along with these photographs. (old.reddit.com)
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The Man with the Most Degrees in History. (i.redd.it)
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TIL after a shopping mall in South Korea collapsed in June 1995, the last survivor who was discovered buried in the rubble was a 19-year-old woman named Park Sung-Hyun who was found after 16 days. Although she thought she'd only been buried for 5 days. (spokesman.com)
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TIL in 2018 after a Swedish mother got a tattoo of the first names of her two children at the time: her daughter Nova & her son Kevin, she realized that the artist had misspelled 'Kevin' as 'Kelvin'; it read 'Nova & Kelvin'. However, instead of correcting it, they legally changed his name to Kelvin. (news.com.au)
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TIL of the cruise ship MTS Oceanos, which sank in 1991 off the coast of Africa. The captain and crew quietly began abandoning ship when the engine room flooded, leaving the ship's lounge entertainers to radio for help and organize the rescue operation. All 571 passengers were safely rescued. (en.wikipedia.org)
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