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TIL there exists a film of Marilyn Monroe performing oral sex on an unidentified man. It was sold at auction for $1.5M to a NY businessman who has kept it private.

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5YoQp TIL that 2014, a famously terrible year for video games, was the first year since 1983 where not a single video game was considered one of the all time greats. The requirement for this certification was appearing on at least six "best of all time" lists by different publications and journalists.
LQm7Z TIL that in the 1860s, Napoleon III backed the “Pantelegraph", an early fax machine invented by Giovanni Caselli in 1855 - over 20 years before the telephone. It sent handwriting over telegraph lines; 25 words took 108 seconds. It was frequently used to verify signatures in banking.
xRQB TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup, Benfica coach Béla Guttmann asked for a pay rise. When denied, he allegedly cursed the club and said: “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached EIGHT European Cup finals and lost all of them.
loLb5 TIL that the Indonesian flag is the nearly the same as the Dutch flag, but with the bottom third and blue strip removed. After 138 years of Dutch rule, youths removed a Dutch flag tore off the blue strip and re-hoisted it as an Indonesian flag in 1945 (War of Independence 1945-1949)
almy TIL that there are “price trackers” for Amazon that show you where the price has been. This is a great tool for avoiding fake Cyber Monday prices.