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TIL The sky movement in Van Gogh's brushwork in his Starry Night painting mimics modern scientific theories of turbulence and atmospheric physics

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l71VV TIL if Greece restores their royal family, the monarch would the Crown Prince Pav́los. He is a direct descendant of Queen Victoria and Spanish, Danish and Swedish Kings. He is currently lives in New York City and runs a hedge fund.
MPwV TIL that Hugh Glass was attacked by a bear, had his leg broken and ribs exposed, was left for dead by his companions who thought he was dead, treated his injuries, and crawled over 200 miles for six weeks back to the nearest settlement, and then set out to find the men who left him to die.
LkMAv TIL the reason seals, whales, and other diving mammals can hold their breath for so much longer than non-diving mammals is because they have a special type of myoglobin (oxygen-biding protein) that is positively-charged, preventing disease-causing clumping (like tau in Alzheimer’s).
VMw9Z TIL the FBI has an Instagram page that's private, has zero followers, but has 26 posts that no one's ever seen
gMRvb TIL a 1991 New York Supreme Court case found that “as a matter of law”, a house which had been sold was officially considered haunted. The owners had sold the house without disclosing they believed it to be haunted and had advertised it as such, lowering the property value.