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TIL Vincent Van Gogh hated photography, and there is only one confirmed photo of him

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v5AL TIL that the day after Thanksgiving isn’t referred to as “Black Friday” because of the profits seen by retailers, but was originally coined by traffic cops in Philadelphia to describe the disastrous traffic conditions
VeYZ TIL that the Honeybee is probably the smartest insect species existing, their unusual and impressive skill set include: “Advanced symbolic communication, language, facial recognition, number use, observation and mimicry, understanding of rules, and high-level problem-solving.”
4XXYJ TIL the first e-commerce was a drugs deal in the early 1970s
QXJX TIL A man has bitten by so many snakes, that his blood is able to be used as an antivenom.
DrPJ TIL A guy named Ole Worm found evidence that “lemmings were rodents and not, as some thought, spontaneously generated by the air.”