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TIL that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky and painted a self-portrait for him, which she almost destroyed after his assassination

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nWE5r TIL a message in a bottle originating from Massachusetts by a 5th grader named Ben Lyons in 1997 washed ashore last year in France and was found by Hubert Eriau. Ben's bottle was part of a class project he did while studying the ocean currents. Ben began his message with "Dear Beachcomber."
9wOom TIL that the electricity bills of a Japanese bullet train on a 622km (386 mi) journey can be paid off with the ticket income of 16 paying-travelers on its 1,324 seats, or on average, just one passenger in each carriage.
x6PRo TIL that when Zlatan Ibrahimovic signed for MLS club LA Galaxy, LeBron James sent him one of his Lakers jerseys as a "welcome to LA" gift. Zlatan's response was to sign it and send it back.
wLWaY TIL about Brainport, a technology that allows blind people to SEE using their tongue. The image picked by the camera is processed by a chip which converts it to electro-tactile impulses, sent to the brain through an electrode attached to the tongue
b9kPN TIL that there exist fungus that can digest gamma rays using melanin, the protein found in our skin, and turn it into energy.