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TIL Gallium completely destroys Aluminium cans

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W7jmo TIL in 1990, thieves disguised as police officers stole 13 artworks valued at $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, making it the largest unsolved art heist in history. Despite extensive investigations, the artworks have never been recovered.
Q5Ne TIL in V for Vendetta, the motto of Norsefire, the totalitarian fascists that conquer Britain and create a Nazi-esque dictatorship, is “Make Britain Great Again”
a8xob TIL about Point Nemo, the place on Earth furthest from any and all land. When the ISS orbits overhead, the astronauts are six times closer than any other human
xVdKk TIL in World War I, California’s schoolchildren were enlisted in a war on squirrels with one-sided casualties exceeding 100,000 ground squirrels
vBBD TIL that Roald Dahl wrote ‘The Twits’ because he hated beards and wanted to “do something against [them]”