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TIL The Ambassadors, a portrait by Hans Holbein painted in 1533, contains an anamorphic skull that can only be viewed correctly from a certain angle

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8Oo8 TIL of Mark DeFriest. Believed to be an autistic savant, DeFreist was sentenced to four years in prison for ‘stealing’ tools left to him in his father’s will in 1979. Able to to memorize and reproduce jailers’ keys simply by looking at them, he’s been imprisoned 36 years due to multiple escapes.
lBWN TIL Medal of Honor recipient Thomas Baker was gravely wounded and had his comrades leave him behind, propped up against a tree with a pistol that had 8 bullets remaining. Later they found his body next to the tree, surrounded by 8 dead Japanese soldiers
w9a6 TIL that adult Ms. Piggy has never been voiced by a female (Only the Baby version was voiced by a female)
v1gnx TIL that a 2014 study conducted by the WIFII determined that roughly 4% of webpages contain a reference to female anatomy
R5NQl TIL about the Amphicar, an amphibious automobile from the 1960s. US President Lyndon B. Johnson owned one, and he was known to frighten visitors at his ranch by driving them downhill directly into his property's lake, all the while shouting that he had malfunctioning brakes.