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TIL that there exists a Museum of Bad Art “to celebrate the labor of artists whose work would be displayed and appreciated in no other forum”

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A9Bx TIL that Canada has a member of parliament who was recently elected into office at 19 yrs of age.
9Y997 TIL that in the 1940s-60s, Melbourne's Sun Theatre cinema had a pram room, where babies in their prams were placed and given a number. If a baby started crying, its number was flashed on the screen to alert the parents
4v16 TIL for Yao Ming’s first game in Miami in 2002, the Heat gave out 8,000 fortune cookies as a promotion for the game. Yao did not take offense because he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and assumed it was an American invention.
0de7j TIL that despite there being a number of empirically based theories, we still aren't completely certain of the origin of Earth's water.
JWOl TIL that a WWI submarine U-28 sunk after it was struck by an automobile which flew off a cargo ship it had just torpedoed