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TIL The Mona Lisa's true colours are rather... colourful - due to age, her current colours look faded and yellowed. Many old paintings are vibrant in reality, but currently lack that aspect due to decomposition.

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GAe1J TIL during 1904 Olympics men's marathon winner was disqualified as he rode in a car for part of the race. The actual winner was near collapse and hallucinating, an effect of being fed brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers. The fourth-place finisher took a nap after eating spoiled apples.
jEkv TIL, author Tom Robbins never edits his books. He spends hours or days on a single sentence before moving on, and once he puts a period on it, he never changes it.
5ZO9 TIL that November 5th 1999 was “Burn All GIFs” Day, when the internet banded together to put an end to the GIF once and for all. It didn’t work.
R7V91 TIL Anne Frank died of a typhus epidemic that ravaged Bergen-Belsen rather than by execution.
E1P9p TIL Mark Twain was a proponent of equal rights. He formed clubs for young women to attend the theatre, to play games, and write correspondence with him. At his death, he said that his time with these girls was his "life's chief delight".