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TIL Winslow Homer had no formal training as an artist. He was largely self-taught and learned much of his craft through his work as a commercial illustrator and through independent study.

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JbLm TIL In 1996, Rob Schneider established the Rob Schneider Music Foundation. The foundation returned music education to Pacifica’s elementary schools by paying the teachers’ salaries and providing funds for instruments and equipment. Prior to this the schools did not have music education for years
lyr7 TIL The IMF estimates we subsidize big oil to the tune of $10 million per minute
1By4 TIL that Tulsa OK used have a “Black Wall Street” that was once the most economically prosperous black community in America. The community’s wealth was greater than that of surrounding white neighborhoods and was destroyed by envious whites on June 1, 1921 in just 12 hours during a race riot.
x68Q7 TIL: Fairyflies are very tiny insects, like most chalcidoid wasps, mostly ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 mm (0.020 to 0.039 in) long. They include the world's smallest known insect, with a body length of only 0.139 mm (0.0055 in), and the smallest known flying insect, only 0.15 mm (0.0059 in) long.
XE5nD TIL whale oil was used in transmission fluids as recently as 1972. Transmission failures soared when its use was banned.