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TIL that a copy of ‘The Pond - moonlight’, a photograph shot in 1904 by photographer Edward Steichen, was sold for US $2.9 million in 2006 making it the most expensive photograph at the time.

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Oo8Gg TIL that the man who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was also a fighter pilot and an intelligence officer who helped Winston Churchill convince the American government to secretly fight Nazi Germany before they joined World War 2.
moWM TIL that congressional approval for the first Gulf War was effected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.
MePK TIL Bill Nye the science guy was a student of Carl Sagan
b6mMN TIL: Damon Albarn, the front man of Blur, also created the band Gorillaz
B7XW TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.