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TIL If dinosaurs had a telescope and looked at Saturn, it most likely would not have had rings.

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QNnm9 TIL that the Edmond post office shooting inspired the term Going Postal, and is the single most deadly act of workplace violence in US history.
kJY7m TIL after being sent to Baltimore in his youth, Frederick Douglass learned the alphabet from the mistress of the house he moved into. When the mistress' husband put an end to the lessons, Douglass began trading bread to hungry neighborhood children who, in turn, helped him learn how to read & write
V8yp TIL though alchemists never succeeded in transmuting lead to gold, in 1981 physicists used the particle accelerator at Berkeley to shoot Carbon nuclei at thin foils of Bismuth- the resulting collisions did produced a tiny amount of Gold atoms
b9JO7 TIL That Salvator Mundi, a painting of Christ holding a crystal orb, by Leonardo Da Vinci, is the current most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. In 2017, it sold for $450.3M. In contrast, in 2005, at pre restoration, it sold for less than $10,000, as sellers believed it was a mere copy.
pY5B4 TIL that IKEA rugs were used for the Night’s Watch cloaks in Game of Thrones.