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TIL, a 3,000 year old mummy was found that had a wooden prosthetic big toe.

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GYW8N TIL Kansas City blatantly ignored The Prohibition. You could buy booze a few blocks down from the police station. They got away with it scot-free for all 13 years (1920 to 1933).
XElr TIL Van Gogh was colourblind: these are his paintings as he perceived them.
5o7R TIL that in 1995 the Church of Scientology imprisoned, dehydrated and starved a mentally ill woman for 17 days until she died.
6EbxQ TIL Madagascar has a larger population than Australia
nVgb TIL, in 1962, an intruder climbing the fence at a Minnesota air base set off the “sabotage alarm” in all bases in the area. In one base, due to wrong wiring, the Klaxon was sounded ordering nuclear-armed aircraft to take off, and the pilots believed WW3 has started. The original intruder was a bear.