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TIL the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is in Denmark.

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epj4L TIL Harriet Tubman was the first woman in American history to lead a major military operation. She also served as a Union spy and scout in the Confederacy during the Civil War.
4WYw TIL that Night of the Living Dead was entered into the public domain because the original distributor forgot to place a copyright notification in the film.
a8O6o TIL in L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz series. In the Patchwork Girl of Oz, there is a race of plant people who harvest meat and eat it.
Y7kkW TIL that feather pillows actually date back to Roman times, but they fell out of favor and/or affordability for several hundred years
xVXMg TIL the record fastest voyage from Hong Kong to New York by sailing ship was set at 74 days in 1849, and remained unbroken for 154 years. The record was beaten in 2003 by two days.