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TIL that the portrait of Carlotta Valdez featured in an iconic scene of Vertigo has gone missing and has not been seen since 1957.

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kOdd1 TIL about a 2000 year old Roman era tomb in Jordan whose walls hold 260 figures painted in narrative scenes with comic-style speech bubbles. The 60 odd texts painted in black appear to be Aramaic using Greek letters and are considered one of oldest versions of comic design.
j6n5j TIL The Smoot–Hawley Act of '30 was an attempt to protect the US from foreign competition by imposing high tariffs. The consensus view among economists and historians is that the passage of the Act had, in fact, achieved an opposite effect to what was intended. It exacerbated the Great Depression
VMdpZ TIL Lake Baikal in Russia contains 22%-23% of the worlds fresh surface water, and a max depth of 5387 feet
YpDdZ TIL a British mathematician William Shanks famously took 15 years to calculate π to 707 digits, but made a mistake in the 528th digit, rendering all subsequent digits incorrect.
4X1eX TIL At a radiology conference in 1974, Lee Rogers, a physician who had mistakenly swallowed a soda can tab during a basketball game, addressed the hazard to the medical community, which lead to a redesign of a non-removable tab that reduced untold amounts of litter and injury to humans and wildlife.