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TIL Macaulay Culkin owns 5% of the net profit of Home Alone 2 and 15% of merchandise

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gMDgD TIL that Tournai is the only Belgian city to be ruled by England. It was under English control from 1513 to 1519.
ZPNB TIL of Wolfgang Beltracchi, the most successful art forger of all time, who is famous not for making recreations of famous paintings, but for making originals in the style of famous artists, believable enough that hundreds of his works are on display in museums across the world.
9koD TIL that one acre of hemp (grown in a single season) yields as much paper as up to 4 acres of trees.
ob7Y TIL if an octopus gets stressed out, it might self-cannibalize and eat it’s own limbs.
OGak7 TIL that over 30% of pediatric burns are from accidents involving instant ramen, according to a 10 year retrospective study at the University of Chicago Burn Center.