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TIL The grandniece of China's last emperor is an artist who opened a gallery in Vancouver's Chinatown where she sells her paintings and displays works dedicated to explaining the Qing dynasty

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woOvP TIL about the Indiana Pi Bill, a proposed law in 1897 that would have made pi equal to 3.2. Passed unanimously in the Indiana House, it was stopped by a Purdue University mathematician.
epV1L TIL that According to NASA Space Place, we are all time travelers because we travel one year in time between birthdays and we are all traveling in time at approximately the same speed: 1 second per second. We typically experience time at one second per second
4X8pN TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.
Bg44e TIL Ian McElhinney (Barristan Selmy) was "miffed" when he found out his character was being killed off in Game of Thrones via his season five shooting schedule instead of a sitdown or phone call. He was also "disappointed" because he was looking forward to an expanded role for Selmy in season six.
epOR6 TIL Soviet officer Nikolai Kuznetsov, who spoke perfect German, penetrated German lines by posing as a German officer. He heard the first report of Operation Long Jump existing from a drunk SS officer (Nazi plan to kill/kidnap Stalin, Churchill & FDR at the Tehran conference). Soviets ended the plot