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TIL: The first state allowing women to vote was Wyoming

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grE09 TIL artist Damien Hirst created the most expensive work of art by a living artist. "For the Love of God" is a skull made out of platinum, human teeth & 8,601 diamonds. It cost 15 million pounds & took 18 months to make, completed in 2007.
4XLbJ TIL that in 1971 a German episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was produced for broadcast in Germany & Austria. None of the Pythons spoke German, so the script was translated and memorized phonetically.
gpbW TIL the “fake marijuana” leaf of the boy suspended in Bedford turned out to be actual marijuana
WKQL TIL Using a chloroform soaked rag as an incapacitating agent is pure fiction. It is nearly impossible to incapacitate someone using chloroform in this manner.
VBOBZ TIL: That Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer who won two gold medals in swimming at the 1896 Athens Olympics. He went on to compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics 28 years later winning a silver medal for architecture, making him one of only two Olympians ever to have won medals in both sport and art.