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TIL that Dwight Eisenhower took up painting during the last twenty years of his life and did about 260 paintings including a portrait of Abraham Lincoln

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VM9k4 TIL the show VeggieTales focused on retelling Old Testament Bible stories because the creator's mom did not want to see Jesus as a vegetable.
GN71 TIL Norway has over $800 billion invested for future generations. They only invest ethically, and have excluded companies like Boeing for making nukes, Raytheon for making cluster bombs, and Wal-Mart for human rights violations. The investments may be worth as much as $3.3 trillion by 2030.
P1ggZ TIL Laos is the most bombed country in history relative to its population size
BrWxW TIL The record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by Georg Solti,a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 22 years.He has won a total of 31 competitive Grammy Awards out of 74 nominations and was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
KOPKQ TIL Joseph Strauss, the engineer of the golden Gate Bridge, mandated that a net be installed under the bridge for safety while being built. This was revolutionary at the time. The net caught 19 men who fell, saving all of them from a certain death.