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TIL a "lost" Rodin sculpture worth millions was in plain sight in a New Jersey local council chamber.

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l7BQN TIL A term ‘tittytainment’ stating a global trap that 80% of population will live in a numb ‘happy life’ with various entertainments, frustrated by the other 20% who actually keep the economy running.
WkkxX TIL That function of the stripes of the zebra is to give it a form of security through obscurity by camouflaging it against the other zebras not against the grass.
85ga TIL that an 8 year old girl was orphaned when rotting potatoes killed her entire family.
yQWll TIL that a stolen Degas painting worth 800,000 euros was found inside of a suitcase in a bus near Paris, during a random search by customs officials. It had been stolen in 2009. None of the passengers admitted to owning it and nobody was arrested.
M7OGa TIL: SPY, the S&P 500 ETF trust that virtually everyone invests in, is a legal trust that has 11 actual beneficiaries. They had no idea they were the beneficiaries, but when they die, SPY dissolves.