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TIL John Everett Millais had a model sit in a bathtub for five months for his painting depicting Lady Ophelia's death by drowning.

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oZvK Today I learned that when maverick Scottish Psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.
LbAZ TIL Rich people in China often hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences.
8dWX TIL that Adidas will cancel any sponsorship deal they have with a player if it turns out he has anything to do with Scientology
5YolD TIL that the Phineas and Ferb theme song was done by the band Bowling for Soup.
yl7e TIL in 2013 a father in Tennessee was arrested for picking up his children from school on foot. The school had a policy that children can only be picked up by parents driving cars or kids can board a school bus.