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TIL When Jim Carrey was broke he wrote himself a cheque for $10 million and gave himself 5 years, in those 5 years he went over the $10 million mark because of Dumb & Dumber and The Mask

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VBJD4 TIL that men had to fight for the right to be topless, as men's nipples were taboo like women's, and were only given the legal freedom to display their nipples in public in 1936.
wL9Lo TIL Henry Jay Lewis was an American double-bassist and orchestral conductor. A child prodigy, he joined the L.A. Philharmonic at age 16, becoming the first African-American instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra and later, the first African-American symphony orchestra conductor in the U.S.
yVWX TIL ancient Egyptian kings would avoid drinking wine because of its resemblance to blood, believing that it was the blood of those who battled the gods and lost - which is why drinking it temporarily drove people out of their senses and made them a little crazy.
QJemk TIL about Jagniwas, the amazing Lake Palace in Udaipur India. Built in 1743 and now a 5-star hotel
b9MKa TIL in 2002, an art critic judged Hitlers paintings as "good" without knowing who painted them but said "The different style in which he drew human figures represented a profound disinterest in people"