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TIL that Frida Kahlo grew up during a revolution, and the nationalism that followed would inspire her art.

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8ekKV TIL that Agatha Christie kept her final Poirot novel locked away in a bank vault for 30 years. And it's currently on free display at Cambridge University
78LKp TIL of the egg fried rice protests, a form of anti government protest In China where internet users post recipes for fried rice on October 24th, and November 25th. This is in reference to the birth and death of the son of Mao Zedong, who died from a bomb whilst cooking outside during the Korean war
dDREZ TIL that in Hawaiian Shinto shrines, George Washington is worshiped as a kami.
Oo8kX One night in 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove for 14 miles from his house to his in-laws. He then broke in and made his way upstairs, bludgeoning his mother-in-law with a crowbar that he’d gotten from the boot of his car before stabbing her repeatedly to death. He then proceeded to choke and stab his father-in-law, who miraculously survived. Parks then drove himself to the police station and turned himself in. It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free. Thanks to a combination of a lack of motive, his consistent version of events, and data gathered from EEG readings, no charges were pressed against him because all evidence pointed to the unlikely and bewildering truth that Parks had been sleepwalking. It remains one of the most remarkable cases of homicidal sleepwalking in history.
pOnQ TIL a passenger at Heathrow was forced to change out of his Transformers Tshirt to board a flight because it depicted a gun