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TIL the Game Boy Camera was featured in the 1999 edition of Guinness World Records for being the world’s smallest digital camera

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akk0 TIL an early version of Picasso’s The Weeping Woman was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria with the ransom demand being an increase in funding to the arts. The painting was later found undamaged in a locker at a Melbourne train station and the theft remains unsolved today.
woOX1 TIL Water can exist in three states at once, The triple point is when a substance exists as a solid, liquid, and gas simultaneously due to a specific temperature and pressure. It varies for different materials, with water's triple point being slightly above freezing and 0.006 atm.
R5lQj TIL that a lot of Latin American flags look similar because they based their color scheme proposed by Goethe, who derived it from his work rebuking (incorrectly) Newton's laws of optics
P86w TIL that The Shawshank Redemption’s director and writer, Frank Darabont, was offered $2.5 million from Rob Reiner to let him write and direct it instead, and cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. Darabont refused, saying that this was his “chance to do something really great.”
gOnD TIL there is an entire city in Nevada into which the general public isn’t allowed to go.