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TIL Norman Rockwell’s painting “People Reading Stock Exchange” has a man with three legs. Rockwell didn’t notice this until it was pointed out years later.

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Vy1k TIL of the mysterious death of Gloria Ramirez, who was dubbed the “Toxic Lady” when 12 medical personal who came in contact with her when she was bought into the emergency room fainted due to a strange smell emanating from her.
LkwEd TIL many laugh tracks were made by the Laugh Box machine developed by sound engineer Charles Douglass in 1953.
69QnX TIL That no one in the Doobie Brothers are named Doobie or are brthers , Instead they are named that because they smoked a lot of weed .
4XXdo TIL in 2007, a 73-year-old man underwent surgery and suffered "anesthesia awareness" -- a condition where the patient is conscious and feels pain but is paralyzed and cannot alert the surgeon. The man's resulting PTSD led him to suicide, prompting a lawsuit against the anesthesiologists.
DM7V TIL when Paris fell to the Nazis in 1940, French soldiers cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower. This meant that if Hitler wanted to hoist a swastika flag, they would have to climb hundreds of stairs to get to the top.