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TIL: When Picasso was interrogated by an SS officer about his painting Guernica, “Did you do that?” Picasso replied, “No, you did.”

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5V99p TIL the first living thing to survive a cockpit seat ejection at supersonic speed was a bear.
J1Ap4 TIL that the city with the most roundabouts in the world in terms of percentage of intersections is Carmel, Indiana.
d8rpZ TIL Romanian sewer workers accidentally discovered a cave which was sealed for 5.5 million years. Movile Cave is filled with evolutionary distinct exotic creatures (albino crabs, worms) which feed off sulfur-producing bacteria
9Y7Xm TIL: Medically managed hypothermia has been popular and in use in medicine since the 1930s-1940s when research was conducted demonstrating the absence of irreversible neurologic change in humans cooled to as low as 26*C over a 24-hour period after sustaining traumatic brain injuries.
PJxw TIL in 2004 a French fishing trawler was lost with all hands when a suspected nuclear submarine became entangled in its nets