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TIL Medals from 2016 Rio Olympic Games are defective and show rusting, chipping

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9YJEX TIL In 2010, a thief broke into the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and stole five paintings worth €100 million ( $123 million USD). Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, commented, "These five paintings are unsellable, so thieves, sirs, you are imbeciles, now return them." The art has not been recovered.
x6e1o TIL second-hand incense smoke can be as dangerous, or worst, as cigarette smoke.
j6ABn TIL about Skeeter Syndrome, a rare allergic reaction to mosquito bites that results in hard, plate-like sores that can limit mobility
9wLAQ TIL: Lawyer Andrew G. Haley was the world's first practitioner of Space Law. He was was pivotal in founding the International Institute of Space Law which provides guidelines on how the law should apply to space and extraterrestrial beings. He died in 1966, 3 years before the moon landing.
WkxG9 TIL that honeybees can identify male drones born of incest and will eat them alive once they hatch