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TIL a long-lost Rembrandt painting was found in a basement in New Jersey. It was initially valued by a local auction house at $800, who were unaware of its true value. But numerous art buffs recognised its true value, resulting in it selling for $870,000 ($1.1 million with the sale premium).

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BrLmW TIL That the last living eyewitness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln won a TV game show in 1956
MelAa TIL Johannes Kepler wrote the world's first genuine science fiction in 1609. The novel advanced a Copernican model of the universe, described gravity decades before Newton, envisioned speech synthesis centuries before computers, and presaged space travel three hundred years before the Moon landing.
NNGe TIL that after the Bastille was stormed and demolished, some of its stones were carved into miniature versions of itself.
oBBgL TIL: Return of a soldier from World War I (1914-18). Veterans Day is on Nov 11th - this novel depicts about the mental trauma experienced by soldiers in World War I. How a carefree young man become a soldier was burdened by his traumatic experiences.
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