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TIL of Alex Steinweiss who invented music album cover art

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BBve TIL That when when most of the population of Clipperton Island had died. The population was left with one man and 15 women and children. The man proceed to call himself king until he was killed by one of the women. Immediately after his death the survivors were rescued by the US Navy.
k4lB TIL that Japanese universities hold memorial services for animals that die in laboratory testing.
N75g6 TIL Le Bateau ("The Boat") by Henri Matisse, caused a minor stir when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which housed it, hung the work upside-down for 47 days in 1961 until Genevieve Habert, a stockbroker, noticed the mistake and notified a guard.
l7JoB TIL Helen duncan, a Scottish medium, in 1944 was the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 for fraudulent claims about the sinking of HMS Barham.
mxL7o TIL about objective tinnitus: a form of tinnitus that others can hear too