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TIL famous Pre-Raphaelite English artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rosetti was in love with his friend's wife and wombats and even drew both of his passions together in 1869

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16yeP TIL the Ebisu Minami circuit closed in 2021 due to damage from the Fukushima earthquake, and safety and finance concerns.
8exGZ TIL an Afghan immigrant invented and sold the process for Minute Rice to General Mills.
8eRYb TIL In 1978, President Carter oversaw the installation of the first computers in the White House: a Hewlett-Packard HP 3000, water-cooled IBM laser printer, and Xerox Alto desktop computer for the Oval Office. Reagan later removed the Xerox Alto in 1981
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5YraB TIL about The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things - a traveling roadside attraction filled with miniature replicas of other roadside attractions.