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TIL that Ancient Greek & Roman statues weren’t originally white but were once painted in vivid, bright colours

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vPp14 TIL that on June 12, 1942, a Beaufighter Mk.1C conducted a raid in broad daylight at very low altitude along the Champs-Élysées to drop a French flag and then attacked the headquarters Gestapo building with a rocket.
mEjy TIL that the music used in the “you wouldn’t steal a handbag… you wouldn’t steal a car” piracy advert, was in fact stolen.
MeP57 TIL that actually honor killing violates islamic law
QNbEe TIL that, after having received spam from "predatory" academic journals fishing for publication fees, students from NYU and UCLA retaliated with a submission of their own. The paper, named "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List," contained text, diagrams, and graphs repeating the title for 10 pages.
eMrJ TIL that James Earl Jones once used the handle “Darth Vader” while travelling across the country and spoke, in character, to truck drivers on the CB radio. Apparently, the drivers would really freak out so he stopped doing it.