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TIL there exists an anime version of The Wizard of Oz that covers several of the original L. Frank Baum books.

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DQwWg TIL that a retired print technician from Yorkshire David Smith in 2023 discovered the Einstein tile, a single tile that is capable of tiling the plane aperiodically thereby solving a long standing open problem in mathematics.
60G7 TIL: If someone reports their company for tax evasion in the U.S., he or she will receive 15% to 30% of the amount collected.
kOmVd TIL that the home of Lord North, popularly known as the British prime minister who “lost America,” is today owned by an American university and houses American exchange students.
M0l0 TIL: a man modified a bulldozer into a tank and systematically destroyed several buildings in his town. Police were helpless and the rampage ended when the driver took his own life.
1ALV TIL in 1946, a Georgia Tech Graduate Student and amateur photographer rushed to the scene of a hotel fire and snapped a photo that would would win him a Pulitzer. The photo is of a woman jumping from the 11th story to escape the flames, and led to new safety regulations across the US