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TIL artist Salvador Dali illustrated a 1969 edition of Alice in Wonderland, with only 2,700 copies printed. It included twelve illustrations and a front-cover etching signed by Dali himself. Signatures of Dali can be spotted throughout, such as the melting clock found at the Mad Tea Party.

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OGgXe TIL: The Swingjugend was a German counter culture group of teenagers who admired the American way of life and thought the Hitler's Youth was uncool compared to the swing scene. They called their opposition the "Homo Youth" and too chaste (virgins). Their leaders were sent to the camps.
doOr TIL that on almost all of his albums, Lenny Kravitz not only sang his songs, but did everything else: played the guitar, bass, drums, percussions and produced them all himself.
W7LE4 TIL: about Clive Wearing, a British Musician who contracted a herpes virus which attacked his central nervous system. This resulted in a total loss of memory except for 30 seconds in the present and the love he has for his wife.
16Bdd TIL about the Struwwelpeter, a 19th Century children's book in Germany showing moral lessons with disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. One of the stories tell about a boy who doesn't stop sucking his thumbs until a tailor appears out of nowhere and cuts off his fingers.
jNLGv TIL that the British soldiers responsible for the Boston Massacre were defended by future U.S. President John Adams. At the risk of his own reputation, and even though he disliked the British, he took the case, as he believed in the right to a fair defense and trial.