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TIL that we don't know how the great French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre really looked like, because the only surviving portrait of him is an angry face in a caricaturist's work. For 200 years, the portrait of a French politician was wrongly attributed to him and used in old textbooks.

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b6kn9 TIL the signature fashion designs for the groups Labelle, Funkadelic and Kiss were all created by the same man, Larry LeGaspi.
R7vAQ TIL the man on the cover of Matchbox 20's "Yourself or Someone Like You" sued the band for unapproved image usage 9 years after the album's release. The delay was because the man was never told the purpose of posing for the photo, and wasn't aware of the album during its original 12m+ sales run
4xeg TIL convicted murderer Richard McNair successfully escaped prison, while running, he was stopped by police looking for him and talked himself out of it. The incident is recorded on dashcam.
LQvgr TIL that serial killer Ted Bundy helped police catch Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer". In 1984, Bundy offered his opinions on the psychology, motivations, and behavior of the killer, and that he was revisiting body dump sites, which turned out to be true. Ridgway was arrested in 2001.
R4J8 TIL Venezuela sells gas for about 4 cents per gallon