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TIL an early version of Picasso’s The Weeping Woman was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria with the ransom demand being an increase in funding to the arts. The painting was later found undamaged in a locker at a Melbourne train station and the theft remains unsolved today.

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nWlZb TIL about Bill Blackbeard, the man who saved comics, literally. It is estimated he saved 350,000 Sunday strips and 2.5 million dailies in the 1990s.
oBRnK More than 50 percent of women with anorexia nervosa have depression or anxiety, and 43 percent of adults who are obese have depression. So, women at opposite extremes of the weight spectrum have low levels of ‘feel good’ neurosteroid.
apjN TIL that “jiggawatt” is an obscure but acceptable pronunciation for “gigawatt”, which makes its use in the movie “Back to the Future” legitimate. Producer Bob Gale said he had thought it was pronounced this way because this was how a scientific advisor on the film pronounced it.
Brjlx TIL of the "cargo cult" belief, in which pre-industrial societies mimic western activities, such as the building of mock airstrips, and performing daily rituals such as dressing as parading soldiers, which they believe will cause spiritual agents to deliver highly desired cargo such as in WW2 arenas
VMnBk TIL hippos can sleep underwater by using a reflex that allows them to surface, take a breath, and sink back down without waking up.