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TIL that Pablo Picasso was arrested as a suspect in the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa.

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W70rY TIL the only wedding ceremony of a president serving in the White House was Grover Cleveland in 1886. At 49, he married a 21-year-old woman he had previously been the legal guardian of, and John Philip Sousa provided the music.
VMEBD TIL a skinny person can actually eat more food than an obese person. While it runs counter to logic, obese people have more fat in their mid section and around their organs. A skinny person lacks this which allows their stomachs to expand further. This is why many competitive eaters are so skinny.
yQZXp TIL there are less sharks now more than ever because they often habitate on the same routes as industrial fishing ships, and are caught as bycatch. As the apex predators of the oceans, sharks keep other marine life in healthy balance and help regulate the oceans. Reduce sharks numbers = reduce us.
9YEw7 TIL of 'Heaven's Gate' (religious group), who had participated in a mass suicide of 39 of its members (a coordinated series of ritual suicides) in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.
kJBve TIL Somalia has the largest Camel population at an estimated six million within its borders and twice as many camels as Sudan.