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TIL : A Few Years Back, Wisconsin’s largest painting, The Flagellants, returned from its trip to Munich!

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60kW TIL The greatest tank ace in history wasn’t a high ranking German officer, but a young enlisted Czech auto worker. He was never given a Knights cross because he beat up an officer he saw abusing prisoners of war.
OGPN1 TIL that in Singapore, people who opt-out of donating their organs are put on a lower priority to receive an organ transplant than those who did not opt-out.
V0w4 TIL There is an Island in the Bahamas Inhabited Only by Swimming Pigs
JY4B8 TIL Michael Jackson was supposed to attend a meeting at the top of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, but fell asleep and didn't go there.
kO7Jm TIL Cross circulation where a second human (usually they patient's father) was used as a heart bypass 'machine' was used for the first surgeries to fix congenital heart defects in children.