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TIL that most butterfly’s depicted in art are shown as dead

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LQNp TIL that the canned pumpkin most people use for pumpkin pie is actually just butternut squash.
N7oLJ TIL the oldest known toys in the world are a number of dolls found in a 4,500 years-old child's grave in Siberia
Yp97A TIL that the inhabitants of islands that were temporarily occupied during the Pacific War thought they were being visited by gods, and when the soldiers eventually left, they formed rituals that imitate planes, runways, and marches to try to bring them back. Many still do this to this day.
JYGQv TIL the subject of "Christina's World," one of the best-known American paintings of the middle 20th century, was Anna Christina Olson. The artist was inspired after observing her crawling across a field, which was due to her medical conditions- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, a genetic polyneuropathy.
ejxL TIL that during a revolt at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, a member of the SS was stabbed, then burned alive in a crematorium oven