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TIL that the Shroud of Turin (allegedly Jesus Christ’s burial shroud) may have been created using a lost form of medieval photography

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R7eX7 TIL that there are 10 million descendants of passengers on the Mayflower.
0woNL TIL that new Mail Pouch barns were painted as recently as 1992
a8DeA TIL - Lichtenstein during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 had an army of 80 soldiers, and they returned home with no casualties and a new friend they made along the way
Lnjv TIL In 1982, evolutionary biologist Daniel H. Janzen concluded that the avocado is an example of an ‘evolutionary anachronism’, a fruit adapted for ecological relationship with now-extinct large mammals.
l7QVB TIL about the Triboelectric effect - the cause of static cling and a key mechanism in photocopiers and laser printers.