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TIL: A painting of Bea Arthur Naked sold for $1.9m

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GY5YE TIL of an organization called the National Lawyers Guild. The NLG can deploy a team of Legal Observers to a protest or demonstration. They act as a source of legal advice for protesters, and “may serve as a deterrent to unconstitutional behavior by law enforcement.” Look for their green hats!
0NVN TIL there is currently a community of people living on top of a mountain in France. They believe that on December 21, aliens will emerge from the mountain to save them from the apocalypse.
vPwkD TIL Lego donates model MRI kits to hospitals to help children understand the procedure and reduce their anxiety
Br7my TIL That Blackbeard was shot 5 times and stabbed 20 times in the ambush that killed him, and it took someone slitting his throat from behind to finally end him.
PYAjg TIL that archaeologists use the term Before Present, whereby the Present is the 1st of Jan 1950, because after that point in time, we had done so much nuclear testing, that nothing can be reliably carbon-dated anymore.