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TIL Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime

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ErW TIL that sometime around 2000, the child labor laws changed in the UK in order to film the movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone”
o9ZW TIL the “strangest” battle of WWII refers to the Battle for Castle Itter the only battle in the war in which Americans and Germans fought as allies.
6EdZ7 TIL Neil Armstrong's parents were on a game show called "I've Got a Secret" in 1962. In the episode, Neil Armstrong's parents' secret was that on that day, their son was chosen to be an astronaut. The host asked Armstrong's mom how she would feel if he would be the first man on the moon.
OGxn4 TIL that Tyrian purple or royal purple is a redish-purple natural dye. It is secreted by several species of predatory sea snails. Twelve thousand snails yield no more than 1.4 g of pure dye, enough to colour only the trim of a single garment.
x64n7 TIL a Dry Sheep Equivalent (DSE) is a unit based on the amount of feed required for a standard sheep to maintain its weight