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TIL - the Louvre has been offering Nintendo DS units to rent for self-guided tours for over a decade. They are now ending the program.

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yQn9p TIL that Teargas, both pepper-spray and CS gas, are listed as chemical weapons and their use by the military is considered a war crime.
rRwdx TIL that in most areas where hunting may occur deer seem to develop an acute sense of time and a fondness for metro parks and golf courses. This odd occurrence is noted in Michigan, around late Aug. early Sept. they begin to move out of less developed areas in favor of living near human settlements.
7r50L TIL that Dorothy Parker’s famous insult “she ran the gamut of emotions all the way from A to B” was directed at Katherine Hepburn, the only performer ever to win 4 Academy Awards.
j6enQ TIL A fossilized os penis of a walrus measured 4.5 feet long. Biblical scholars in 2015 argued it was the penis bone, not a rib, God removed from man to form Eve.
pYyWe TIL that the couple depicted in Grant Wood's famous painting "American Gothic" is that of a father and his daughter, not a husband and wife.