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TIL When the allies liberated Nazi concentration camps gays were forced to carry out their prison sentences

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KOeoJ TIL that Ringo Starr from The Beatles makes and sells paitings made in MS Paint, for about $2000 dollars a piece. His painting have been shown in several art galleries, and the profits from purchasing one of them goes to a charity called The Lotus Foundation
EVaP TIL Horses are as good as bloodhounds in tracking people
46bJ TIL a statue of a Roman emperor in Britain was vandalized in 2003 with (grammatically correct) Latin
8eyAP TIL archeologists have been using remote sensing equipment like LIDAR to find lost cities in places like Ecuador and it's revolutionizing the field with major discoveries of previously unknown ancient cities in the Americas.
l7RJA TIL The 'Magna Carta' (1215) was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government are not above the law.