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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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yQNBJ TIL that Blue fireworks are the Holy Grail of the pyrotechnic world because the chemistry needs to be absolutely perfect to produce them.
VMl8B TIL in 1996 a suburb of Provo Utah accidentally booked Rage Against The Machine and everyone lost their minds. Even though no incident came from it, the City Council enacted an outright ban on concerts.
xV9B7 TIL of Loulis, a chimp who learned to communicate trought sign languange, but he wasn't taught by humans: he learned the signs from his adoptive mother, Washoe, the first chimp to ever learn sign languange
OoM6g TIL that in 1962 a pair of con artists tried to convince a Mexican village they were Incan gods. They hired a prostitute to impersonate an Incan goddess as part of the scam. The prostitute took over the now-growing cult, and intiated a series of grisly murders and human sacrifices
bEy9 TIL a man was writing articles and reporting about deaths of people who he actually killed. He was arrested when they found out he had more information than the police.