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TIL: The Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 by a Louvre employee

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Nm96 TIL when US speakers say ‘quite’, they normally mean 'very’, and when UK speakers say 'quite’ they normally mean 'fairly’
Y79MZ TIL In 1993, Lawyer Garry Hoy was giving a tour to students when he decided to run head first against a piece of glass to prove how strong it was. He had done this many times, but on this occasion the window popped out and he fell to his death from the 24th floor.
6Egj8 TIL that those "baby on board" signs hanging in car windows serve a purpose of alerting first responders that there is a person in the vehicle that's unable to unbuckle themselves in the event of an accident
kJG0e TIL that during the wahabi movement the word wahabi was not used in its early days the early Wahabis called themselves either salafis sunni or muwahidun meaning oneness and they were and are influenced by hanbali school of thought
jKjv TIL in 2009 archaeologists unearthed the oldest musical instruments ever found – flutes that inhabitants of southwestern Germany laboriously carved from bone and ivory at least 35,000 years ago.