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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci had a pupil who painted a nude version of Mona Lisa, called Monna Vanna

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QXaa TIL that Moses and the Israelites probably crossed the “Reed Sea”, not the “Red Sea.” The shallow, now-dry lake bogged down the wheels of the pursuant Egyptian chariots and allowed Moses to escape to the Sinai Peninsula.
7rYWp TIL that when in North Korea in 2011, graffiti saying “Park Chung Hee and Kim Jong Il are both dictators; Park Chung Hee a dictator who developed his country’s economy, Kim Jong Il a dictator who starved people to death” was found at a Pyongyang college, the entire city went into a 3 day lockdown
N7ex1 TIL elephants bury their dead, can do math, use tools, and see humans like humans see puppies (the same part of their brain lights up when we see puppies; that’s why many elephants stroke humans with their trunk)
neOBP TIL about the Second Congo War, the deadliest conflict since World War II. Nine African countries and around twenty-five armed groups became involved in the war, with casualties ranging from 2.7 to 5.4 million deaths.
M7GaB TIL in 2018, Scientists identified the earliest known animal in the geological record as a 558-million-year-old oval-shaped creature known as Dickinsonia that may have borne a superficial resemblance to a segmented jellyfish.