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TIL: There is and artist in Washington DC who painted self portraits after taking every type of drug.

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VM1AQ TIL Carl Sagan wrote a peer-reviewed paper while at Stanford with a NASA grant outlining it is probable aliens have visited the earth and feasible they have impacted our civilizations.
XE5Vr TIL Cloudflare uses a wall of lava lamps to generate truly random encryption keys for their networks. Every detail about photos of the lava lamps are turned into completely unique and unpredictable strings of characters
69PeJ TIL players of the game War Thunder have leaked classified information about real life military vehicles on the official game forum.
vPAax TIL that a reliable way to determine longitude at sea was not discovered until the 1773 with John Harrison's H4 watch, which worked at sea thus allowing sailors to know the exact time and make proper calculations. Before that, ships mostly had to rely on latitude and guesswork
mxPNy TIL During WW1 the british army created “Pals Battalions” which let men fight alongside their friends, neighbours and colleagues. The objective of these battalions were so soldiers would fight harder and keep each others spirits up.