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TIL there is another copy of the Mona Lisa in existence. It was presumably painted by a student of Leonardo da Vinci

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JYklV TIL that between 1945 and the early 1990s, approximately 40,000 Brutalist, alien-looking sculptures called Spomeniks were built all over Yugoslavia. Intended as World War II memorials, some are the size of a 15-story building.
8k6X TIL the average American spends 33% of their waking hours listening to music
XExQ TIL: James Brown was in his sixties before he discovered doggy style on the Playboy Channel.
YxJP TIL that a neutron star is so dense that if an object was dropped from one meter above the star’s surface, it would hit the surface at a speed of 7.2 million km per hour
D11ae TIL the removal of Skymall magazines saved American Airlines an estimated $350K per year in fuel costs.