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TIL that wealthy farmers in 19th century Britain would commission exaggerated paintings of large livestock as a status symbol, that they were somehow superior to other livestock farmers and breeders.

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4k8bX TIL of Dr. Atlas Fredonyer, a Swiss Doctor who was convicted of incest and pardoned by California Governor Leland Stanford and died after surgery to remove a 16-ounce bottle lost inside his rectum after an attempt to alleviate a severe case of diarrhea. Fredonyer Pass, California is named after him.
b9WZ7 TIL Maria Oktyabrskaya, whose husband was killed in 1941, sold her possessions to fund a T34 tank, piloted said tank called The Fighting Girlfriend and received Soviet military honours for killing Nazis
wEXE TIL In 2012 Mathematician Vi Hart sent an open letter to Nickelodeon proving Spongebob’s Pineapple was geometrically impossible. Pineapple designer Kenny Pittenger responded on his blog (in video description) by posting a new “mathematically correct” design. This new design is now used on the show.
MDam TIL that the Cliffs Notes for ‘The Scarlet Letter’ outnumbers sales of the actual book 3.6 to 1.
wLW68 TIL about "Sky Islands" which are are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different desert environments. In the mountains, the mild climate hosts unique plants and animals, which are unable to leave, due to extreme environmental differences, making them virtually function as islands.