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TIL that visitors to the Lascaux caves in France do not see the genuine 17,000 year old art, but a replica created to help protect the originals.

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kOlKd TIL that eight women that are believed to have had a romantic relationship with Adolf Hitler attempted to commit suicide at least once. Four of them succeeded: two shot themselves, one allegedly threw herself out of a window and the other was Eva Braun who took a cyanide pill at Hitler’s side.
grlRL TIL some historians call the Seven Years' War World War 0 because of how widespread it was and how many world powers were involved.
LPLp TIL In the mid 1920’s the US Department of Prohibition ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols, products regularly stolen and resold as drinkable spirits. They did this to scare people out of drinking and to track where speakeasies were located. The program killed an estimated 10,000 people.
kOrnB TIL the current King of the Netherlands has been secretly flying as a commercial co-pilot for 21 years, and has been doing so even after ascending to the throne in 2013
m6wE TIL that the Disney movie “Moana” had to change its title in Italy to “Oceania” because of a famous pornstar with the same name