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TIL Achille Devéria, who was famous for painting artists and intellectuals such as Dumas, Walter Scott, Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Franz Liszt, also did a series of pornographic lithographs. Devéria's works were described as showing, "all the morals and aesthetics of the age"

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P10Vn TIL Ernest Hemingway had a transgender daughter. Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway) was an American physician and writer. Although she lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age, and in her sixties underwent surgery to transition
WVxN TIl- there was a 18 year old girl who, asked 911 if she could shoot an intruder, then shot him dead while on the phone.
lo6L5 TIL Jack, a baboon, was employed to change rail signals. After initial skepticism, the railway decided to officially employ the baboon once his job competency was verified. He was paid twenty cents a day, and 1/2 a bottle of beer each week. In his nine years of employment, Jack never made a mistake.
OBV1 TIL Thomas Edison was a fan of a trapeze artist who performed strength and endurance-based strip teases.
mGgM TIL that cemeteries cause pollution of groundwater due to the decay of corpses