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TIL Edmund Clint, a child prodigy who in his short life of less than 7 years painted 25,000 paintings.

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pYpO TIL that in 1990 an unemployed French physicist attempted a one-man invasion of an island and was arrested while reloading his gun on a bench by the island’s volunteer constable.
neD0Y TIL Marquis de Lafayette was buried in Paris with dirt from Bunker Hill battlefield
kOM1g TIL that the organism Mycobacterium Leprae, which causes Leprosy, has never been successfully grown in a lab in non-living media. It can only be cultivated in animal specimens, specifically on armadillo feet. This makes the organism extremely difficult to study and nearly impossible to eradicate.
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