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TIL Salvador Dali painted a portrait of Abraham Lincoln using 121 pixels.

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69MYQ TIL that Andrée de Jongh, the mastermind that led the Comet Line during WWII, was saved from execution because Gestapo officers did not believe that such a small young girl could lead such an operation. The network, consisting of mainly young women, smuggled shot down airmen from Belgium to Spain.
xVY0B TIL Dogs don't start wagging their tails until they're three to four weeks old.
OGMy7 TIL NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,000 days between March 1979 and October 1997. The first shot was of his girlfriend at the time and his last photo was on his deathbed, dying of cancer
oRepW TIL: Bonobos (also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee) are the only non-human animal to have been observed engaging in tongue kissing
M7PGb TIL that when Louis XVI was executed in 1793 during the French Revolution, his severed head was paraded around for the crowd and was met with exclamations of "Vive la Republique!"