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TIL Socrates (469-399 B.C.) criticized the youth of his time for overindulging in luxuries and disrespecting their parents

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VMNd8 TIL that the uranium used in the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings were mined from Katanga province, Congo.
M7E5B TIL The Old Fisherman, painted in 1902 by Tivadar Kosztka, is an oddly asymmetrical piece. It was discovered the painting contains two hidden images. Mirroring the left or the right side, two symmetrical images are created- a Godly man praying in nature, or the Devil in an industrialized landscape.
6E4KY TIL if you try to steal the hood ornament from a Rolls Royce made after 2004, it will instantly retreat into the chassis of the car until the owner rights it. These hood ornaments, called "The Spirit of Ecstasy", cost roughly US $4000 to replace.
99vQ TIL George Washington feared the growing influence of political parties in the US. He thought that it would lead to “the alternate domination” of each party, taking revenge on each other in the form of reactionary political policies, and that it would eventually cause the North and South to split.
9Y0AG TIL cartoonist Otto Eppers was charged with attempted suicide after surviving a jump off of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1910. A judge dismissed the charge commenting “Well, he seems very much alive, doesn't he?”