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TIL that Stephen Cobert donated his portrait to the Smithsonian Institution, which accepted it initially on loan, and displayed it between two bathrooms and above a water fountain at the National Portrait Gallery

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v1ve4 TIL that in China, companies use stamp chops instead of signatures, and whoever is in physical possession of the stamp can legally sign any document for the company, even rewriting their own employment contract
W7GQN TIL It's a common practice in the Victorian Era to return or burn love letters when a relationship ends to prevent them from being used as blackmail or to compromise the honor of the parties involved
PYZGG TIL that the Huanghuagang Martyr Memorial in China has a replica of the US Statute of Liberty on top. It replaced a previous Statue of Liberty that held a rifle, symbolizing Mao's quote that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
d8bZd TIL doctors declared Velma Thomas dead as her heart stopped beating and she had no brain waves for 17 hrs. Her family said goodbye and left her at the hospital to make funeral plans. Medical staff took her off life support and while removing her tubes, she suddenly came back to life.
8nW8 TIL On Sept 11, 1997, a man claiming to be an ex-Area 51 employee frantically called into a radio station. During the call, the radio station suffered a satellite failure.