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TIL If an atom were as big as the Solar System, a neutrino would as small as a golf ball.

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D1Jrp TIL the largest sum paid for a painting by Giovanni Boldini (€2.1 million) was for one found in an unoccupied and decadent Paris apartment frozen in time since 1942. The painting of his mistress had sat unseen for 68 years after her family fled the Nazi's to never return (rent paid til their death).
8eG8a TIL that the Brazilian jumping spiders bite can cause severe pain, problems with the heart and breathing but also a penile erection that lasts for several hours, and in some cases death.
e6LJ TIL Sony sold more than 12 million 3.5 inch floppy disks… in 2009
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x67d7 TIL that in 1865, former Representative Robert Dale Owen, who had been in favor of women's suffrage, drafted an initial version of the proposed Fourteenth Amendment that did not restrict voting rights to men.