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TIL the Mona Lisa has its own mailbox in which the painting receives fan mail and flowers addressed to it.

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4kLJR Til the real dog, kabosu, the face behind the famous “doge” meme has been diagnosed with leukemia
woXBJ TIL dandelions were called pissabeds due to their diuretic content.
emJ5 TIL in 1807 the British Navy set up the “Preventative Squadron”. A growing unit of ships tasked with chasing down slave ships off the coast of Africa and freeing the slaves.
N6eP TIL: A Japanese CEO took a pay-cut along with the employees during recession, and, when told about America’s rich-poor pay-gap, said “We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics.”
ZwY4 TIL that the word bonfire means ‘bonefire’. Old bones were used as fuel into the 19th century.