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TIL that a painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, that was believed lost for 100 years, has been found in Vienna.

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K9B9 TIL 80% of black smokers smoke menthols
vP8nD TIL that there are secret saunas built in the forest around the Mamquam river in BC, Canada. Provincial authorities are actively investigating and discouraging the use of these saunas because multiple people have been injured trying to access them
VMxpk TIL: Entering a radius of 5 nautical miles around North Sentinel Island is illegal under Indian law. In Jan 2006, 2 Indian fishermen were fishing in prohibited waters and were killed by the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have repeatedly attacked approaching vessels.
JxQ4 TIL the Japanese have a word (Kenjataimu 賢者タイム) which means the “period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly.”
e0eK4 TIL Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry sold his prized 1959 Les Paul during his divorce and lost track of it until he found Slash in a magazine holding the same guitar. For years Slash refused to sell it back until he finally gave it to Perry as a gift on his 50th birthday.