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TIL that statues of biblical kings, located on the west facade of the Notre-Dame de Paris, were decapitated during the French Revolution because they were mistaken for statues of French kings

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ZpKwB TIL that the city of Philadelphia, which was where Washington had to live when he was president, had laws in place that said any slave that lived there for more than 6 months would be freed. So, Washington set up a rotational schedule exchanging his slaves between states to prevent their freedom.
98Rr TIL They cut a small hole on the flag pole and had a vacuum hose attached that would suck in Flick (Scott Schwartz)’s tongue.
wLjx6 TIL anything obtained in space and brought back to earth is the legal property of whoever obtained it, and big tech/space companies are already trying to salvage asteroids, meteors, and comets for valuable elements
e0XeD TIL about the 1969 book "Naked Came the Stranger", a literary hoax - the book was written to be disjointed and terrible, but full of sex scenes, to prove that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The novel spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List.
YOjW TIL there was a woman in 1972 who possessed a visual acuity 20 times better than average. She could identify people at a distance of more than a mile (1.6 km).