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4XR86 TIL The Starry Night depicts Vincent Van Gogh's view from the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum.
e07xk TIL in Victorian England they used to take group photos with their dead ones and, given the long exposure time, the dead were often seen more sharply than the slightly-blurred living, because of their lack of movement
vBWD TIL Italian-Americans Were the Victims in the Worst Lynching in American History
EA7x TIL the US Patent Office building was the only major government building to survive the British burning of Washington DC during the War of 1812.Superintendent Dr. William Thorton persuaded the British that they’d be destroying the shared intellectual record of mankind if the patents were burned
nEBr TIL that when a dignitary complained to President Theodore Roosevelt about Alice Roosevelt (his daughter) smoking on top of the White House, Roosevelt replied, “I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”