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TIL there is a town in China completely focused on mass-production of oil paintings, where for example a single artist made 400 replicas of the same painting, and Wal-Mart alone orders thousands of paintings each month

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mxexp TIL: Among many things named in honor of the naturalist Peter Pallas (b 1741, d 1811) are around a dozen animal species and an important olivene-crystal-studded stony-iron meteorite. Also, the Russian town closest to the meteorite crater was named for him --as was the surrounding land district.
78xAX TIL about Constance Fisher (1929–1973), a woman with schizophrenia who killed three of her children in 1954. After years in an institution, she was released, then killed three more children in 1966. Deemed unfit for trial, she was hospitalized, escaped in 1973, and died soon after in an accident.
x9Pk TIL the reason peanut butter doesn’t go bad is its aridity; with a moisture content of about 2%, it doesn’t contain enough water to support bacterial and fungal growth.
LgNV TIL a 12 year old boy was tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 years in prison after following a 15 year old boy and helping him kill the 15 year old’s stepdad.
b98E Today I learned that the duchess of York was banned from the royal house for letting a man suck her toes