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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

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ANGWd TIL after fame as the author of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and infamy due to his relationship with his step-sister, Lord Byron got historic fame in streets and carved on the Temple of Poseidon by dying in Greece as he predicted after giving £4,000 (0.5M in 2024) for Greek independence from Ottomans
9YXPD TIL: Most countries don’t actually rely on credit scores
ADRGB TIL the Chicken McNugget was invented by Herb Lotman, who grew his company -Keystone Foods- to one of the largest beef and chicken suppliers in the world, with annual sales of up to $5 Billion (mostly to fast food chains, like McDonalds).
VoAD TIL There are more black men in prison today in the US than there were enslaved in 1850.
newed TIL Great white sharks rarely survive in captivity. Experts suspect being surrounded by glass might either confuse or overload the shark's electroreception system, which is used to sense the electrical signals given off by fish in the open ocean, not necessarily inside a glass box.