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TIL Child prodigy Edmund Thomas Clint died at age 6 but still drawn over 25,000 paintings during his life.

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WkjVd TIL that not all cheese is vegetarian
Y7Kk7 TIL about Thiaroye massacre where hundreds of African soldiers who helped defeat the Nazis in 1944 were shot to death by the French Army because they rightfully asked for their salary.
1WNr TIL Newman’s Day is a holiday celebrated in which one must drink 24 beers in 24 hours without throwing up or falling asleep
9wDvX TIL when Guinness World Records stopped monitoring the record for the longest time to stay awake in 1997, the record holder at the time was Robert McDonald who went 453 hours 40 minutes (18 days 21 hours 40 minutes) without sleeping in 1986.
dDwQZ TIL In 2013, the first artificially reproduced human tooth was created in China. Scientists were able to create the tooth using epithelial cells extracted from human urine.