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TIL that Grand Duke Alexis, son of Russian Tsar Alexander II, made regular overseas trips to have tattoos done by master artists, including a journey to Japan to get an elaborate dragon tattoo covering his entire right arm - and at the end of the 19th century, was the most tattooed person in Europe

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nWal7 TIL The 1741 HMS Wager shipwreck, 6 months suffering on South Chilean Island, 60 crew mutinied leaving Captain Cheap with all the sick men and no chance to survive. The mutineers arrived in London in 1842. Cheap hiked the Andes, nearly starved in jail but arrived in London to see the mutineers hung.
WbVA TIL that a Soviet scientist named Dmitriy Belyayev has successfully domesticated foxes by selective breeding, and the foxed became more and more dog-like with each following generation.
e0kDb TIL of Pierre Brassau, an artist of the “avant-garde modern art” style. He was a chimpanzee, promoted by a Swedish journalist, to see if critics could distinguish between the style and the work of a chimpanzee. Most critics praised the work.
P19bO TIL that farts travel at 10 ft/s (or 6.8 mph/3 km per hour), and a scientist who studies farts is called a flatologist
wpm7 TIL that it takes as low as 3 months to educate a Police Officer in the U.S., compared to 3 years in Norway and Finland