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TIL That “Dogs Playing Poker” isn’t the title of the artwork. “A Friend In Need” is one of many pieces on a theme that Coolidge made.

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Yd5P TIL the wrestler Mick Foley became a fan of Tori Amos in 1993. After meeting her in 2008, he got involved in a group she started to aid abused women. He has volunteered extensively, fielding calls from women in difficult circumstances, and logged over 550 hours on the phone over an 18-month period.
Exoo TIL Honey, and objects immersed in honey, have been preserved for decades and even centuries
VQOG TIL that the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge being depicted as an apple may have originated as a Latin pun: by eating the malum (apple), Eve contracted mālum (evil).
OoQP6 TIL about a man who planted an enormous guitar shaped forest as a tribute to his late wife.
awdB0 TIL: That China has a lower gdp per capita than Russia, Greece and Mexico