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TIL a Piet Mondrian painting was hung upside-down for 75 years before its inversion was noticed

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Ooja6 TIL: In 1841 during a naval battle between Argentina and Uruguay, the ship from Uruguay ran out of cannonballs. The captain ordered his men to shove the hard balls of cheese they had onboard into the cannons and to fire those. The cheese tore holes in the Argentine ship's sails and killed 2 sailors.
oRVG7 TIL that it took Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubiks Cube, one month to solve his own invention.
x44w TIL of the legend of Sir Francis Drake’s drum. On his deathbed he requested that the drum be returned to England, and if ever they came under attack, one was to beat the drum and he would return to protect the country.
yQ7vv TIL in 2014 an Oregon couple sold their mattress, not knowing that their cat had snuck inside it to take a nap. The cat was missing for 10 days before it was finally reunited with its owners.