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TIL Ghasts in Minecraft are voiced by a cat

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v1xkx TIL that the initial prints of the painting "Under the Wave off Kanagawa" (AKA The Great Wave) had a pink sky, however, due to light exposure damaging many of the prints, the pink has faded away
EyEV TIL, a Thai janitor stole Saudi Royal jewels, when the jewels were then returned it was discovered that half of them were fake, a Saudi business man with close ties to the royal family then traveled to Thailand to investigate and was abducted and killed, along with 3 Saudi officials 3 months later.
1V8O TIL that the planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed, based on the orbit of Uranus.
055 TIL that a gold medal won from the Olympics is worth about $494, a silver medal worth $260, and the bronze medal is worth $3.
p8J0Z TIL that the oysters in Chesapeake Bay used to be able to filter the entire volume of water in 3 days. This process now takes nearly a year.