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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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vP6Xr TIL Fig wasps die inside of female figs to pollinate them. If the fig is male they lay eggs inside and the circle of life continues.
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x61b0 TIL of the “Christ of Europe”, a Polish concept that sees Poland as a Christ-like martyr for the sins of Europe owing to the historical oppression suffered by the Polish people
dGrK TIL that in WWII nine American pilots crashed into a small island in Japan called Chichijima. 8 of the 9 were murdered, 5 of those 8 were cannibalized. The lone survivor was George H.W. Bush.
KY8EJ TIL about the Human Death Spiral - the cycle of ultimately disasterous industrialization that filled the world with cars, which leads to sprawl that requires cars, which leads to even more cars, etc