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TIL every Rubik’s Cube can be solved within 20 moves.

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DNKe TIL that the Algerian national anthem was first written in blood on a prison cell wall by an Algerian revolutionary who was imprisoned by the French colonial regime
M7mMm TIL that Erector Set inventor Alfred Carlton Gilbert also designed a toy lab set using radioactive material that was sold in 1950. The toy's amount of radiation exposure was equivalent to a day's UV exposure from the sun, provided that the radioactive samples were not removed from their containers.
ypPv TIL: 271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book
R7rvw TIL of the Son of Sam laws that state convicted criminals cannot profit in any way from their crimes whether it be from books, tv, film, etc. All proceeds from these deals go directly to the victims or their families.
0Na1 TIL Texas has it’s own dialect of German, and it’s going extinct