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TIL: The Virgin Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran.

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e01PL TIL The 'Mona Lisa' painting was created and 'tweaked' over a period of sixteen years (1503 - 1519). Da Vinci never relinquished ownership until his death and instead carried it on the backs of mules as he travelled from Florence to Milan to Rome and finally France.
7gWZ TIL ‘Munchausen by proxy’ is a label specifically for mothers who seek sympathy by making their children ill.
W74Bo TIL about a jelly fish that's immortal. It can transform itself into it's younger stage by a process called transdifferentiation and grow back into adult again. This process can be repeated indefinitely
VMd9Z TIL the English horn is not english at all. Its name comes from a mistranslation "cor angle", which means "angled horn" in French, heard instead as "cor anglais."
nZp7 TIL Scientists recently discovered that some of the most powerful “space winds” in the universe, blowing at 125 million mph from black holes could be killing galaxies.