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TIL that the Mona Lisa is not painted on a canvas, but on a wooden panel

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NXyy6 TIL George Washington prevented a military coup over unpaid back wages by putting on a pair of glasses to read a letter from Congress, explaining he was "almost blind in the service of my country.” Moved to tears, his officers compromised.
PYvlL TIL Jurassic Park was meant to use stop motion instead of CGI, but two artists worked on a CGI T-Rex in secret, and once they finished it, they quietly put a video of it on screen when Kathleen Kennedy visited their office. the video convinced Kennedy, Spielberg, and the rest of the team to use CGI.
mxnOR TIL that Thomas Paine, one of America's founding fathers, was extremely progressive for his time. He advocated for the separation of church and state, universal suffrage, the abolition of slavery, and an early kind of socialism. When he died, only six men came to his funeral.
GY9nj TIL Nelson Mandela was only removed from the US terror watchlist in 2008
yQ8dM TIL A hidden ecosystem seems to lurk six miles below the Mariana Trench, offering clues for finding life across the solar system.