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TIL of "A Village Fair with a Church Behind": a 1643 painting by Isack van Ostade owned by Queen Elizabeth II. When conservators cleaned the painting, they discovered that a bush in the foreground had been painted over the original around 1903; they removed the bush which revealed a pooping man.

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W1K4 TIL that US military suicides surpassed combat deaths in 2012
V7VB TIL James Bond villain Yaphet Kotto has expressed that the spy should not be played by a black man, saying “Political correctness be damned, we have to stay with what is literally correct. These roles are not written for black men" and “We have pens to create roles that no one else has established.”
P1OeG TIL that the swedish word for conducting invesigative journalism is named after the german invesigative journalist Günter Wallraff
epk1J TIL that the ferry "MS Herald of Free Enterprise" departed from Zeebrugge, Belgium on 6 March 1987 with the bow doors still open, causing the vehicle deck to flood and the ship to capsize, resulting in 193 deaths among the 459 passengers and 80 crew on board
Jb14 TIL there are depictions of Medieval Knights fighting snails in ancient manuscripts and nobody knows why.