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TIL researchers trained pigeons to discriminate between paintings by Picasso and by Monet. They won the humorous Ig Nobel Prize in psychology for their work.

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X01ZD TIl the first page of the Gettysburg Address was written in Washington, in ink and on official stationery. The second page was written in Gettysburg, in pencil on a piece of that happened to be at hand.
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