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TIL A French painter was highly acclaimed by art critics but something they didn’t know was he was a chimpanzee

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9WWQ TIL John Quincy Adams chose to be sworn in as President of the United States on a book of law instead of the Bible because he wanted to swear upon the Constitution.
Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.
dDRrj TIL Up Until the 1950s, There Was a Species of Seal Living in the Caribbean From Florida to Mexico
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