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TIL The Smithsonian Museum has over 3 million 2D and 3D images that anybody can use for free for any commercial purpose.

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ADAww TIL of Wilmer McLean, who’s house in Manassas, Virginia was in the 1st battle of Bull Run. He moved to Appomattox, Virginia, but 4 years later Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant in his living room. His properties had one of the first, and last encounters of the Civil War.
oBnXA TIL After the assassination of Julius Caesar a large comet hit the Earths atmosphere, it was seen in Rome and China, and may have been brightest daylight comet in recorded history, it led to Caesar being Deified, an Imperial Cult, and the building of the ‘Temple of the Comet Star’.
OKQ1 TIL the first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face
xVZxk TIL that there was a Russian adaptation of Married...with Children that remade (almost) all original episodes, plus a hundred more with fan input and the American writers
wDZW TIL Norway reserves the right to repurchase Orkney and Shetland (and its billions in oil reserves) for a fixed sum of gold and silver, worth around £800k