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TIL that Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick created the famous - and somewhat ubiquitous - red, black and white Che Guevara image. Fitzpatrick, aged 16, met Guevara in Ireland too. Fitzpatrick began distributing for free, stating ‘I literally wanted it to breed like rabbits. I wanted it to spread.’

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NvOb TIL that there were so many sea turtles in the Caribbean Sea when Christopher Columbus arrived that his crew was kept awake at night by the sound of the turtles banging against the hulls of the ships.
QJXma TIL the heir to the Habsburg dynasty, which dominated much of Europe for centuries, is a 22-year-old race car driver
16rQd TIL in 1963 a 16 year old sent a 4 question survey to 150 well-known authors (75 of which replied) in order to prove to his English tutor that writers don't intentionally add symbolic content to their books.
V7Jm TIL: George Washington was worth $525 million in his day (adjusted for inflation)
4XG8g TIL about Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, who was a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom. She was the daughter of Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of Punjab. She played a leading role in the Women's Tax Resistance League and was instrumental in winning women their right to vote.