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TIL that new Mail Pouch barns were painted as recently as 1992

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PjDZ TIL that none of Bob Ross’s on-air paintings were created spontaneously, and he always had the first copy hidden off screen for reference.
WKbL TIL the Netherlands experienced a ‘tulip mania’ in 1637. Before the bubble collapsed, a single bulb could sell for 10-times the annual income of skilled worker
GAW1J TIL: The oldest surviving photograph or first photograph of the moon was taken as early as 1839 or 1840
JYdQv TIL of Sophie Scholl, a political activist who was executed for high treason after handing out anti-war leaflets in Nazi Germany
DB5g TIL that it was Plato who suggested that telling a lie was OK as long as it was for the good of the people. He called it the noble lie.