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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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PD9V TIL that in 1911 a lone man emerged from the wilderness in California, the last member of his tribe and also “the last wild Indian”. With the help of university professors he was able to preserve parts of his language and culture.
nemV7 TIL that Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech so enthralling that reporters in the audience stopped taking notes and now we don't know what he said.
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