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TIL the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

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erEk TIL When adjusting for ticket price inflation Gone With The Wind is the all time biggest earning film in the US, grossing $1.6 billion domestically which is over twice as much as Avatar earned.
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rRJPd TIL of Irena Sendler, a Polish hero who saved the lives of 2,500 jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto during The Holocaust
XbK8 TIL famous mathematician & scientist Blaise Pascal converted to Catholicism after having a 2-hour mystical experience. He spent the rest of his life mostly writing about theology and apologetics.