npr.org

9w9J6 TIL that Han van Meegeren, accused of selling Dutch cultural heritage to the Nazis, proved his innocence by forging a Vermeer painting live in front of a court-appointed committee — and was acquitted of collaboration, convicted only of forgery.
4kQr5 TIL that the oldest still active bond is from 1624 and pays about 13 1/2 euros in annual interest.
KY5Z4 TIL that college students identified a skull found on a New Jersey beach in 1995 as belonging to a sailor who died in a shipwreck in 1844.