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TIL that the sequel to Puss in Boots was originally going to be titled Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves.

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N7Bbe TIL that the Mona Lisa was not widely known until it was stolen by a man named Vincenzo Peruggia in 1911 and recovered three years later
xGb0 TIL in a survey executed by Harris Interactive, 40% of Americans believed the statement “Dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans” to be true, while another 13% were not sure about it
LBKr TIL that in ancient Rome the punishment for parricide, killing one’s own parent(s), was to be whipped repeatedly and then sewn up in a leather sack along with a serpent, a dog, a rooster and a monkey. The sack was then thrown into a river.
16lBd TIL The Deftones formed in 1988 and released their first album in 1995.
g4WW TIL Aerogel (an ultralight material used by NASA) was created by a scientist as the result of a bet whether he could replace the liquid in jellies with gas