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TIL there’s a city in South Dakota called Gettysburg. Its slogan is “Where the Battle Wasn’t.”

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60Al TIL Katharine Hepburn is the only actor/actress to win the Best Actor/Actress Oscar four times.
9YW46 Fake fur is getting an upgrade. Researchers at MIT Media Lab have designed 3D-printed fake fur that mimics the real thing. It's made from a biocompatible resin and feels like mink or chinchilla.
XLPE TIL there only three species in the animal kingdom that have sex for pleasure: humans, dolphins and bonobo chimps
90RD TIL in 1956 Paul Hogan shocked the art world by unhooking an Impressionist masterpiece from a wall in the Tate Gallery (London) and carrying it calmly out of the gallery. Despite being photographed by journalists while he was stealing it, he’s never been prosecuted.
6Blm TIL a dentist named Edgar Parker legally changed his first name to “Painless”, when he was accused of breaking a false advertisement law by claiming that his dentistry was truly painless.