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TIL The displaying of the Mona Lisa has caused its colors to become quite faded. A sister painting made by a student of Da Vinci at the same time was kept in storage and is much more vibrant.

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XE4PR TIL The African Lungfish has the ability to survive outside of water for up to a year.
VBK4G TIL that there is a district in Finland named "Port Arthur" after the port which had been recently lost by Russia at the time. The name came to be after Russian workmen building the district told local children they were "rebuilding Port Arthur"
awO7J TIL in 1920 The New York Times ridiculed the notion of rockets in space, calling it absurd, and criticized rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard as being less educated than a high school student. They issued a retraction in 1969 just days before Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon.
nejl7 TIL that in a review of clinical drug trials, almost all negative studies were unpublished, leading to the false impression that 93% of antidepressant trials had positive results. When unpublished studies were included, 51% of all clinical trials were positive and 49% were negative.
RWDl TIL Kuman Thong (golden young boy), is a dry roasted still-born baby covered in gold leaf and worshipped as an amulet in ancient Thailand. It is illegal now, but sometimes people still make them.