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TIL Japanese Calligraphy Ink Is so expensive and it takes years to fabricate it

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KOX1a TIL that in 2005 someone stole Judy Garland's ruby red slippers from the Wizard of Oz film, while on they were on display in Minnesota. They have never been found and there is currently a $1 million dollar reward for there return.
oBQxK TIL the Fibonacci Sequence was identified by ancient Indian author Pingala around 200 BC. Writing about meters in Sanskrit poetry, he also described binary numbers (in the form of short & long syllables, similar to Morse code), Pascal's Triangle, and the first known explicit reference to zero.
7r4Bp TIL that in 1966, the Procrastinators Club held a demonstration in Philadelphia to protest the War of 1812
GYAvg TIL that Ethiopia has its own timezone (different from the countries in the same longitude) and a new day begins at dawn, not midnight.
MQ4K TIL All humans are born “premature” because their large brains wouldn’t have fit through the birth canal