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TIL that China was the only nation at the Paris Peace Conference to not sign the Treaty of Versailles.

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WkQgB TIL Margaret Thatcher said in 1973 that she didn't think there would be a woman Prime Minister in her lifetime. Six years later, she became the Prime Minister.
79JZ TIL that author John Steinbeck was investigated by the FBI for being acquaintances with leftists and attempting to write a novel exposing the conditions in Japanese concentration camps in 1943.
b9Z7Z TIL that the last person to be executed for blasphemy in Scotland was a 20-year-old man who called theology "a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense", and the Old Testaments "Ezra's fables", and that Christ "learned magic in Egypt, then performed pranks which were called miracles".
yQyoM TIL in 1954 an archaeologist discovered 1,224 intact pieces of wood from 2500BC under the Great Pyramid of Giza. A boat builder then spent 14 years figuring out how they fit together and un-warping them to assemble the "Khufu ship", visible in a museum today.
KOKLB TIL of Art-o-mat machines; specialised vending machines that dispense art, specifically the artwork of local artists. As of July 2018, there were over 100 machines around the world, and over 400 artists involved.