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TIL that Andres Serrano's Immersion (Piss Christ) was destroyed by vandals in 2011 in Avignon, France

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R7A5j TIL about Eridu, the first sumerian city(in modern day Iraq in the mesopotamian region) founded in 5400 BC, originally located close to the Persian gulf at the mouth of the river, but is now at some distance from the gulf because of the accumulation of silt at its shoreline over a millenia.
VM9RZ TIL the inventor of the bikini had to hire strippers to model it on the fashion runway because women used to recognize bikinis as underwear
K4JB TIL That OJ Simpson is up for parole this year after serving 9 years in prison.
N7j1N TIL that Marek's disease affects chickens and was once rarely fatal. The introduction of a leaky vaccine (still get/spread virus, don't get sick) caused it to become 100% fatal. Because it is so fatal, and the vaccine doesn't stop the spread of the virus, Marek's can only spread in vaccinated flocks
KOBw6 TIL about Dr. Rodney Marks, an Australian astrophysicist who died from methanol poisoning while working at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The cause of the fatal methanol poisoning has never been determined. Forty-nine other people were at the base at the time of Marks' death.