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TIL a $60,000 USD Pokemon card was lost in the mail

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WkbPY TIL that, if strictly looking at yearly output of individual units of rubber tyres, Lego is the world's largest manufacturer of tyres (albeit toy wheels), compared to Bridgestone, Michelin, and Goodyear
KOmaG TIL about Monet's Ultraviolet Eye. Due to an eye surgery, the famous French painter could see ultraviolet rays. This operation had an influence on his paintings, where nature was represented much more bluish.
J8Z4 TIL: When asked what his IQ was, Stephen Hawking said “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers”
xVj70 TIL that on the Mississippi River in the 1850s, the word "two" was often pronounced "twain." When leadsmen measured a depth of two fathoms, they shouted "mark twain!" The American writer Mark Twain, a former river pilot from Missouri, got his pen name from this phrase.
8ZrX TIL farmers in Botswana have started painting eyes on their cows bottoms to stop lions from attacking them.