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TIL Ariana Richards (the young girl from Jurassic Park) is an Oil painter and is living in Oregon now. Her portraits are stunning.

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pY6ZO TIL the first video on youtube "me at the zoo" was actually a d*ck joke and it went over my head as a youth
QJE9X TIL toward “I Have A Dream” gospel singer Mahalia Jackson shouted,“Tell them about the dream, Martin."King departed from his prepared remarks and started "preaching” improvisationally, punctuating his points with “I have a dream.”
6o7w TIL that during WWII Croatian fascists used a type of knife literally called a “Serb cutter” in order to faster kill prisoners in concentration camps with guards holding contests to see who could kill the most inmates in one day, the record being 1,360 during one night
EOQo TIL of a general whose dying request was to have his skin used for drums so he could continue leading his troops to war. He was also blind and never lost a battle.
R57L8 TIL that during a two-year recovery from tuberculosis at a sanitorium, Ringo Starr was first exposed to a percussion instrument in the form of a makeshift mallet made from a cotton bobbin that he used to strike the cabinets next to his hospital bed.