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TIL: Con Artists Sold Fake Goya Painting, Got Paid In Photocopied Bills

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kJBpB TIL Stonehenge was once owned by a man named Cecil Chubb. Who bought it for £6,600 in 1916. Roughly about half a million pounds back then. He gifted it back to the UK shortly after.
7EP TIL in 2005 a Romanian murderer attempted to sue God for failing to keep him from the Devil’s influence.
69eeX TIL the famous poem "Ozymandias" was based on an actual ancient monument, boasting: "King of Kings Ozymandias am I. If any want to know how great I am and where I lie, let him outdo me in my work."
RYM4 Beverly Hills sits atop an oil field with nearly 100 active wells, many disguised as buildings, producing ~1 million barrels/year
b6E6E TIL About Amedeo I of Spain, king for two years, after a couple armed uprisings, an independence war, assassination attempts and political deadlocks he willingly abdicated, leading to the establishment of the Spanish republic, declaring that "Spanish people were ungovernable".