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TIL An exhibition of an Édouard Manet painting led to the hiring of armed guards, whose job was to police sobbing and shouting spectators. The painting depicts an unclothed woman reclining on a divan in a brothel.

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KOGBR TIL the spotted white porcelain anemone crab has highly unusual seafan-shaped claws which it uses to filter the water while sitting on top of an anemone by first collecting mucus from its host anemone's tentacles and then using that to attract and gather small sea creatures and plankton for food.
gMVBD TIL During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, to help USA/USSR relations, astronauts and cosmonauts played smuggled audio recordings of glasses clinking, laughter, and many female voices. Houston radioed to ask what’s going on. "Oh nothing,” they said. “We finished work, just having a party up here."
QJYga TIL that the buttoning of women's garments on the left side arises from historically placing buttons for the convenience of (right-handed) maids/servants who would dress them
ooZA TIL the mathematician George Dantzig solved two of the most famous problems of statistics, because he came into class too late to hear that they were supposed to be unsolvable
m11OP TIL about the Ni'ihau incident, where a Japanese pilot landed after the Pearl Harbor attack and tried to fight on