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TIL about Teri Horton, a truck driver who bought a painting for $5 in a thrift shop that turned out to be a potential Jackson Pollock. However, the painting has not yet been definitively verified. Horton died without selling the painting.

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JkVj TIL that the city of Cincinnati, Ohio has an subway system that was built, never used, and left abandoned
VBR64 TIL of Khaled al-Assad, a Syrian archaeologist who in 2015 gave his life to protect the ancient city of Palmyra from destruction by IS militants. Under torture and pain of death, he refused to reveal the location of priceless artifacts he’d hidden away.
QJ8gk TIL there is a giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.
neKA7 TIL that Rodney Dangerfield smoked pot at the White House during the Reagan administration.
xALb TIL of the “heath pea”, an abundant Scottish plant that, when eaten, effectively stops the sensations of both hunger and thirst for days