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a8ADy Today I learned that New Zealand have a law that bans anyone born January 1 2009 or later from buying tobacco, meaning there will one day be only 1 person in New Zealand who is legally allowed to buy cigarettes
pxW4 TIL that before the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, the painting was so unknown that the Washington Post used the wrong image of the painting in their article reporting the theft
X07B6 TIL A French mail carrier named Ferdinand Cheval spent 33 years building a castle (“Le Palais idéal”) out of stones he found on his mail routes.
Z8M1Y TIL Pharoah Ramesses II was issued an Egyptian passport 3,197 years after his death in 1984 for transportation to France due to preservation issues with his profession listed as "King (Deceased)". He was greeted as a king with full military honors
41d6 TIL there was a plot to kill the Vice President and Secretary of State concurrently with the Lincoln assassination. The Secretary of State was stabbed in the face but lived, and the assailant who was to kill the Vice President got drunk instead.