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TIL Every Simpsons character has 4 fingers except for God who has 5.

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yVNyM TIL that the London Underground map's famous design is based on circuit diagrams. Its designer, Harry Beck, was an engineering draughtsman, and decided to strip away geographical accuracy in favour of making the links between stations as neat and readable as possible.
4e0R TIL that Su Hui, a fourth century Chinese poet, wrote a poem in the form of a twenty-nine by twenty-nine character grid. Each line can be read forward or backwards, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. This arrangement allows for 2,848 different readings.
l7dM1 TIL The first public institution in the United States dedicated exclusively to the treatment of the mentally ill was the Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Williamsburg, Virginia (now Eastern State Hospital), incorporated in 1768 and admitting its first patients in 1773.
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ADBP4 TIL that Edvard Munch painted 5 different versions of "The Scream" over a period of 17 years.