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TIL that a touchstone originally was a piece of slate used to test the purity of precious metal alloys

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Lkoyv TIL that the city of Liverpool in the UK has successfully boycotted News Corp's "The Sun" newspaper for 30 years after proven false and sensationalised reporting of the city's Hillsborough stadium disaster.
QJA96 TIL The Three Stooges performed at the very first Super Bowl Halftime Show. During their performance, Larry Fine spotted a football player hitting on his wife. He flipped him the bird, and for this he got in trouble with CBS and had to pay a fine of $42.50.
LQb6V TIL that after Claude Monet had cataract surgery, he could see ultraviolet light which made everything look more bluish and vibrant in his paintings
kJ9Md TIL About Bill Wyman from The Rolling Stones who groomed Mandy Smith at the age of 13, married her at 19 and all his band mates and friends new how young she was and were ok with it because that's the way Bill was....
Jx6V TIL 2 million people formed a 675 km chain between the three Baltic states to demonstrate a desire for independence from the USSR in 1989