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TIL Richard Feynman and his wife, Gweneth Howarth, bought a Dodge Tradesman Maxivan in 1975, and had it painted with Feynman diagrams. The license plate was ‘QANTUM’.

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pYOaQ TIL that Pablo Picasso was once accused of stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911 and was brought in for questioning before being cleared of any involvement
4BY6 TIL that Bernie Tiede was released from his life sentence in prison in May on the condition that he stay in Austin, TX and live with the filmmaker of ‘Bernie’.
5Y41D TIL that Sony needed military export permits from the Japanese trade ministry for the export of PlayStation 2s. The PS2 was so good at processing high quality images quickly that the Japanese government believed it was possible to adapt it for use in missile guidance systems.
XErrj TIL elephants are highly empathetic and generous even towards other species. Once an elephant found a rancher with a broken leg and dragged him under the shade of a tree, guarding him and gently touching him with her trunk
W5aN [TIL] that after Chris Hadfield’s cover of “Space Oddity” from the ISS was removed from Youtube, David Bowie signed the rights to the song over to him so the video would stay up.