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TIL that a family tree, made from human hair, made in the mid-19th century, is on display at the Old State Capitol in Frankfort, KY.

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NJ1M TIL in the original 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, the Emerald City isn’t actually green; the Wizard requires everyone inside to wear green tinted glasses to make them think it is
69LGJ 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.
eKMJ TIL that due to climate change, the island nation of Kiribati is rapidly sinking into the ocean. The Government has already started buying land in other countries for its people, and is urging citizens to evacuate.
V7RZ TIL that Eddie Vedder wrote ‘Jeremy’ after reading a brief newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy in Texas who brought a gun to class and shot himself, in front of his teacher and thirty students. Vedder wanted to show how even such a dramatic gesture would only get a few words in the daily news.
BroGx TIL there's been proposals to terraform Venus for a human colony since the 1960's, such as thinning the dense atmosphere to reduce the 450 °C surface temperature, setting up a system of orbital mirrors to give it Earth-like day/night cycle, and colliding it with an ice moon to fill it with water.