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TIL that two original Andy Warhol pieces are lost because they were destroyed in during a drunken first date at a Houston injury attorney's mansion

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yVOeV TIL. Babies have around 300 bones in their body at birth. As they grow, the bones fuse together and become 206 bones by adulthood.
VMAB4 TIL about the "Gävle Goat" - a straw goat erected anually in Gävle, Sweden. Since the start in 1966 it has been destroyed 36 of 51 times. In 2005 it was burnt down by two vandals dressed as Santa and the gingerbread man, by shooting a flaming arrow at the goat.
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x6L67 TIL Demon Pacts were once seen as completely real, but nowadays the traditional ones are very hard to find.
rNBL1 TIL success of June 6th D-Day 80 years ago, was the result of year-long elaborate deception of disinformation, decoy, and dummies. That included rubber tanks, inflatable trucks, canvas fleet, & parachuting dummy dolls. Also a phantom army, a fictitious network of spies, & fake radio traffic.