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TIL The CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Artists and Had a Secret Abstract Art Collection

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j9RM TIL the marble masterpiece “Sleeping Hermaphroditus” was unearthed ~1608 after being buried for centuries. In 1620, 22-yr-old phenom Gian Lorenzo Bernini carved the marble mattress on which s/he lies today that’s so strikingly realistic visitors are compelled to give it a testing prod.
pkn4 TIL of Paul Powell, an Illinois politician who was found dead in his hotel sweet residence in Springfield, IL with $800,000 in cash, 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios, and 2 cases of creamed corn.
d8LmZ TIL Subaru Corporation used to be called Nakajima Aircraft Company. They started out making military aircraft during WWII and eventually designed and produced Apache (AH64-D) Attack Helicopters.
BgX1D TIL A school had a mascot named after a racial slur, and some people are still mad when the school changed the mascot.
0wKYR TIL legal scholars use the terms malum prohibitum and malum in se to distinguish between offences which are legally or morally forbidden. The former is wrong simply for rules prohibiting them whilst the latter is wrong as it is seen as an innately immoral act.