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TIL of Equatorial Guinea’s 1975 Christmas Eve massacre, in which roughly 150 political dissenters were executed in a stadium by soldiers wearing Santa Claus costumes to the tune of Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were the Days.”

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VMyg0 TIL Pablo Picasso worked up until the day he died at age 91; literally painting till 3 am on Sunday, April 8th, which was just hours before his death. His last well known self-portriat was done a little less than a year before his death, entitled Self Portrait Facing Death
XEarX TIL that during the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln's name did not appear on the ballot of 10 southern states, but he still won by a landslide.
VbeZ TIL fedoras were originally a fashionable piece of clothing for women’s rights activists
Eg5gW TIL that we don't have 100,000km (60,000m) of blood vessels. It's actually around 9,000km to 19,000km
9Y1QB TIL before MRI scans were widespread, doctors used an extremely painful X-ray to look at the brain where the CSF was drained and replaced with air. They would strap patients into a rotating chair to angle them upside down so that the fluid would be fully replaced in different parts of the brain.