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TIL that James Garfield once found a new, original proof of the Pythagorean theorm

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Awlw TIL there is a charity you can donate your wedding gown to and they will have it converted into multiple gowns for families who have lost a baby. The gown is used for final photos and the burial.
VWmp TIL that it is illegal in 13 European countries to deny the Holocaust.
oBVgr TIL that tint is a mixture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness, tone is produced either by mixing a color with grey (or by both tinting and shading), and hue is how much red, blue and yellow it has.
GYNP1 TIL bats make up about 20% of all known mammal species. There are about 1200 species of bats and about 5400 different mammals
894G TIL artist Peter von Tiesenhausen made the top 6 inches of his 800 acre farm a copyrighted work of art to keep oil pipelines out. It costs oil companies $500/h to talk to him