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TIL The Old Fisherman, painted in 1902 by Tivadar Kosztka, is an oddly asymmetrical piece. It was discovered the painting contains two hidden images. Mirroring the left or the right side, two symmetrical images are created- a Godly man praying in nature, or the Devil in an industrialized landscape.

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jN5ej TIL of Big Hill-a section of railway on the Canadian Pacific line that proved so difficult to climb, spiral-shaped tunnels had to be bored to reduce the slope to a safe grade.
8a074 TIL that the patron saint of Norway, the man declared the perpetual king of Norway wrote erotic love poems so naughty that the authors of the sagas didn't include them.
xVEDb TIL That The George Washington memorial statue in London is built on American soil, as Washington once said that he would “never stand on English soil ever again”.
W7JN TIL an heir to the Jameson whiskey company bought a 10-year old girl in the Congo and gave her to cannibals so he could document how she was prepared and eaten.
MevJA TIL that the population of the Inishkea Islands (in Ireland) was until recently unaware of Christianity and the English language, worshipping a magical stone regularly “re-clothed” by a priestess. A catholic priest cast the stone into the sea in the 1890s, then a storm left the islands abandoned.