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TIL in the ancient Olympics, false-starters were whipped

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MbK7 TIL that “The Elf on the Shelf” is criticized for teaching kids that it’s okay to be spied on, another tool of the surveillance state
e0mLb TIL of Jacob Riis, a photographer who pioneered social reform through his photos of everyday life in the slums of New York in the 1890s. His book is called, “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.
xVNmB TIL that there is a life size replica of the Titanic - in Tennessee...
M7YJ8 TIL about this 400 year old Japanese white pine Bonsai, which has been taken care of for 5 generations, and survived Hiroshima
QYWL TIL of Walead Beshty, an artist who makes fragile glass and copper boxes and ships them to art galleries unprotected