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TiL of the existence of the "Prado" Mona Lisa, a copy of the famous work believed to have been painted by one of Da Vinci's students simultaneously as Da Vinci painted the original.

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x7ro TIL Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” is actually titled “No Woman Nuh Cry”. Which translates to “No Woman Don’t Cry”. It’s a comfort song for a woman, not a comfort song for men with no woman!
R7xD1 TIL Vandenberg Air Force Base is the most based base in the United States
XEa7r TIL about the scandal involving "Tri-State Crematory" in Georgia. In 2002, it was revealed that the owner would just dump the corpses all over his ranch instead of cremating them. Investigators found over 300 decomposing bodies on his property.
l7MV5 TIL that Archimedes of the 3rd century BC calculated the universe’s diameter to be what is now 2-light years in astronomy and discovered the law of exponent while trying to name numbers that are significantly higher than 10,000^2 (myriad myriads)
5YQxr TIL an SR-71 Blackbird once flew from Los Angeles to Washington DC in 64 minutes. Average speed: 2,145mph.