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TIL that the University of Michigan's prized Galileo manuscript turned out to be a clever forgery.

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b6Y19 TIL the Mona Lisa has its own mailbox in which the painting receives fan mail and flowers addressed to it.
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nWLKd TIL Panama exists because Columbia would not sell their canal to the United States, so the U.S. Army allied with some local rebels who declared independence in 1903.
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