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TIL that Rembrandt’s students pranked him by painting fake coins on the floor to watch him try to pick them up.

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nKBG TIL that in the United States average wages haven’t grown since 1964 (adjusted for inflation)
6EwEQ TIL the oldest-known land animal in the world is a tortoise named Jonathan. He lives in West Africa.
oYwY TIL In Cambridge, Canada you can pay your parking tickets by giving toys of equal value to charity
aw8o0 TIL Scaled Composites wanted to register their SpaceShipOne spaceplane with the FAA as N100KM, as a reference to the Kármán line, the boundary between the atmosphere and space, but as it was taken, they settled for N328KF, or 328 kilofeet, the imperial conversion of 100km.
WyeN TIL there is 30-year-old Brazilian woman who has the mind and body of a 9-month-old