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TIL that underneath Paul Klee's famous paining "Angelus Novus," which inspired Walter Benjamin's "angel of history," lies a portrait of the radical early modern theologian Martin Luther.

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kJP0m TIL the phallic symbol of Makamake, the second largest dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, is because the God of Fertility it was named after has big eyes and nose
e05Yg TIL about the Max Headroom signal hijacking of 1987.
GY07J TIL that there's actually a phenomenon for pronouncing a word repeatedly until it loses its meaning: semantic satiation
P15be TIL that the British crown enjoys ownership of all of the unmarked mute swans in open water. "Swan upping is an annual ceremony in England in which mute swans on the River Thames are rounded up, caught, ringed, and then released."
awx6A TIL about the Percentages Agreement; an agreement through which Churchill, towards the end of the WWII, basically sold Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary to Stalin, in exchange for Greece.