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TIL The Greek philosopher Plato's real name is unknown, as "Plato" is his wrestling nickname

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DGDe TIL in 2009 a Hungarian art historian, while watching the movie Stuart Little with his daughter, spotted a long-lost avant-garde painting in the background. The painting was bought by a set designer in a Pasadena antiques shop for “next to nothing”, and later sold for $285,700 at an auction.
bk07 TIL Babies as young as 9 months know what makes a friend,new research suggests. A study conducted in January in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, shows that babies who are too young to talk still have a set of abstract expectations about the social world.
xxp5 TIL The famous author Upton Sinclair was arrested for reading the 1st Amendment in public during a Union meeting supporting strikers. The arresting officer remarked, “We’ll have none of that Constitution stuff.”
orRY TIL M. Night Shyamalan has won more awards for how bad his works are than awards for how good his works are.
6XRl TIL when universal health insurance was passed in Saskatchewan-Canada, doctors were so opposed to it they striked for 23 days.