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TIL that back in the day people used corncobs to wipe their asses.

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N7lO1 TIL about the law of flat surfaces which says that if you have a flat surface in your home, it will get filled with clutter
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b9MKa TIL in 2002, an art critic judged Hitlers paintings as "good" without knowing who painted them but said "The different style in which he drew human figures represented a profound disinterest in people"
8aNxZ TIL in 2003, a woman found a stolen painting worth $1 million in the trash on a NYC curb. She felt it "had power" and took it without knowing its origin or value. She spent 4 years researching it and discovered it’d been stolen in 1987. She got a $15,000 reward plus a % of its $1,049,000 sale price.
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