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Today I learned more about the urban artists who passed away last year

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j6joR TIL that, on the eve of Goldfrapp's 2003 LP 'Black Cherry' hitting it's 20th Anniversary, the album cover's naked model wearing a rabbit mask is 'Game of Thrones' star, Gwendoline Christie.
16rL4 TIL Mosaics at Walt Disney World were hand created by Luftwaffe's Master Interrogator, Hanns Scharaff.
7p5X TIL that in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Tin Woodman is made of tin because his axe was cursed and one by one cut off all his limbs, head, and body. Each was replaced for him by a tinsmith.
VL1Z TIL SETI is the only organization in the world that publicly has a protocol set in place in the event a signal is received from extraterrestrial life.
awPXM TIL that the Alfred, formally known as the Black Prince, became the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag; the precursor to the Stars and Stripes that we know today. The flag was hoisted on the Delaware River by John Paul Jones and this event was documented in letters to Congress