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TIL Jay DeFeo created a work called "The Rose" that started at 9 x 7 feet. She would apply thick paint and chisel it away. It eventually was 11 feet tall and weighed over a ton. It was sealed in storage until conservators created a backing strong enough to support the heavy paint.

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E5L7 TIL in 1971, LANSA Flight 508 crashed over the Amazon Jungle, killing all crew and 85 of 86 passengers. The sole survivor was a 17 y.o. girl, who fell 2 miles down into the rain forest strapped to her seat, survived the fall, and walked the jungle injured for 10 days until she was rescued by locals
VBpy8 TIL that during the American Revolution, British intelligence officer John Andre was executed as a spy. Many people, including Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette, respected Andre and regretted his death.
E7yd TIL that MIT engineer Dennis Klatt synthesised Stephen Hawking’s ‘voice’. Hawking subsequently requested to keep that voice throughout every upgrade of his system.
p8exQ TIL If the Planck length is the smallest possible thing, and the observable universe is the largest possible thing, then an object which would roughly sit in the middle of these two sizes would strangely be.... an adult human body.
LQVjv TIL the United States Bureau of Land Management released a promotional hip-hop song and music video in the 1990s.