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TIL ancient Greek statues were originally brightly painted.

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ADkMw TIL that a professor asked his students to either flip a coin 200 times and record the results or give the fake results of 200 coin tosses. The students were amazed at how the professor easily identified the real results by seeing if they had six heads or tails in a row.
Jnbv TIL Mark Twain was a confederate solider.
kO4J4 TIL of the Oh-My-God particle, recorded in 1991 over Utah traveling 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light -The tiny particle had the kinetic energy of a 58 mph baseball (or 100 quintillion times the photon energy of visible light)
6dXX TIL on this day, Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government. President John Adams later signed it into law.
G405 TIL in 1974 the U.S. National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals advised, “no new [prisons] should be built and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed…There is overwhelming evidence that [prisons] create crime rather than prevent it.”