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TIL that former Beatle Ringo Starr has been “painting” since the mid-90s in MSPaint. His works have been shown in major galleries and are regularly put up for sale for thousands of dollars.

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Xnpj TIL Mister Rogers defended public television to the US Senate; his testimony helped convince the Congress to increase funding to PBS, rather than cut it in half, as President Nixon wanted
168aX TIL from the 1930s to 1960s pregnancy tests worked by injecting a mouse or rabbit with the woman's urine. The animal was then dissected, and if the ovaries were enlarged it indicated the woman was pregnant.
v1pKr TIL that The Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest by over 1000 years, is also the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.
WkmNA TIL that a bridge built in the 90s over the Choluteca River, Honduras was hit by Hurricane Mitch and whilst the bridge survived, the river below it was rerouted and no longer flowed under the bridge.
Y7Rdv TIL that Ne Win, dictator of Burma during the Socialist Burma period, was deeply superstitious. In 1987 he banned most banknotes not divisible by nine (his lucky number), wiping out people’s saving overnight and further crippling Burma’s economy.