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TIL of the "3.5% Rule" - Every civil disobedience campaign, in which 3.5% of the population participated, has succeeded

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e0p5b TIL that in 1964 paintings by a chimpanzee were displayed in a Swedish art gallery pseudonym "Pierre Brasau", supposedly an unknown french artist. The paintings were praised by critics, one of which went as far as to say "Pierre is an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer."
woJK6 TIL Brasil has a town called Americana inhabited by confederate descendents
W6Q8 TIL that the location of the world’s tallest tree, Hyperion, standing at 379 feet, is kept a secret, and is hiding somewhere in California
kJVdE TIL The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. A 36-letter word irony apparently intended …try saying that out loud.
NXVpb TIL that Perdiccas, the man who was supposed to rule Alexander the Great empire after he died, refused the job the first time so that the others would beg him to take it, but instead they just accepted his refusal and divided it among themselves