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TIL Comedian Demetri Martin graduated from Yale in 1995 and got accepted to Harvard Law School, but went to NYU Law School instead on a full scholarship

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m1lPy TIL when Théodore Géricault was painting “The Raft of the Medusa,” he met with survivors of the disaster, built a replica raft, and purchased multiple human limbs and a severed head which he took back to his studio in order to accurately portray the colour and texture of decaying flesh. [NSFW]
b95g7 Today I learned wooly mammoths are in fact the same size as African bush elephants, contrary to the popular belief that they are much larger.
EyX0 TIL a homeless man lived for three years in the spaces between the girders of a drawbridge, complete with working TV and Playstation, holding on to the beams every time the bridge raised and lowered to keep from falling.
wLWN7 TIL that on 18th April 1930, BBC announced that there was no news and played piano music on the radio instead.
dbZ7 TIL that China employs mobile “death vans” to carry out its executions, of these 65% result in harvested organs.