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TIL that extended Cigarette holders had many useful purposes.

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9gRD TIL the 2015 Neiman Marcus holiday catalog features a $150,000 motorcycle that comes with a 2-day ride along the California Coast with Keanu Reeves
xVdwk TIL that William Shakespeare was inspired to write "Hamlet" - a play driven by the grief of a son for his father - by the death of his own son, Hamnet, who died at age 11. He began work on Hamlet a couple of years later. Until that time he had most been writing comedy plays.
oByOr TIL that legendary crime fighter Eliot Ness was promised by Al Capone that $2,000 would be on his desk every Monday morning if he turned a blind eye to his gang's bootlegging activities ( $33,000 a week in 2018 adjusting for inflation). Ness refused the bribe, was penniless when he died in 1957.
Ox0g TIL that our brains have the tendency to start to shut down when presented with ideology different from our own, with less blood being delivered to the parts of our cortex responsible for rational thought, until another statement is presented that confirms our beliefs
N7jaJ TIL In The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), at the end of the movie, Will Smith, who plays Chris Gardner, walks past the actual Chris Gardner whose life the movie is based on.