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TIL there is only one pig in Afghanistan

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xE8o TIL there is a giant straw goat in Sweden that has been burned down 28 times since 1966
Vaw8 TIL that in 2012 when Taylor Swift held a public vote for where she would visit and preform a free concert 4chan users voted for a childrens school for the deaf and won the vote.
APn7 TIL that the Mona Lisa has no clearly visible eyelashes or eyebrows. In 2007, an engineer used high resolution scans to show the painting was originally painted with clearly visible eyebrows or eyelashes and they gradually disappeared over time, possibly because of overcleaning.
oB07W TIL that in Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick asked Matthew Modine (who played Joker) to keep a running photo diary of the filming over two years.
ADL4 TIL Colonel Sanders was once a lawyer, and assaulted his client. He also killed a man in a shootout.