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TIL a supposedly cursed Lipinski Stradivarius violin was stolen by a small-time weed dealer from Milwaukee who became obsessed with the violin while pretending to be a high-end art thief.

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OoEng TIL that in 1987 students from Caltech changed the Hollywood sign to read CALTECH
7rXGP TIL US war dogs were designated as expendable equipment and were either euthanized or turned over to an allied army prior to the US departure from South Vietnam.
5VmRn TIL: A mule always has a donkey father and a horse mother. An offspring of a horse father and a donkey mother is called a hinny.
b6ogZ TIL that the first writing system evolved from accounting practices in ancient Mesopotamia. Over a thousand years later, Chinese writing independently developed from divination practices in ancient China.
awBmM TIL about Jadav Payeng, "The Forest Man of India," who has planted tens of thousands of trees over the course of nearly 40 years. He has made bloom a once desiccated island that lies in the Brahamputra river, which runs through his home state of Assam.