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TIL Serbian artist Uroš Predić made a painting of drunks in his village returning home from the pub at dawn. He hoped the painting would convince them to change their ways but instead they ended up loving it. Some even complimented how accurate it was.

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rRppM TIL That a dog named Stella was taught how to communicate using buttons , while each button serves as a different voice line.
oKlL TIL in early 2015, the unmanned spacecraft, “Dawn”, is scheduled to arrive at Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest object in our solar system’s asteroid belt.
ylM8 TIL in 1992, a dancer from the Philippines was admitted to a Japanese hospital and died a week later from hepatitis. When her body was flown back and her coffin opened for the funeral, her family found she was stabbed and beaten to death.
exr6 TIL The Six Californias Initiative seeks to divide California into six states. If it qualifies for the ballot and is approved by the state’s voters in November, the US Congress will officially divide California into six separate states.
emok TIL two British twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different parents ended up marrying each other without knowing they were siblings. Upon realizing they were twins, a British court annuled the marriage.