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TIL that Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud met in 1938. Dalí started sketching Freud and Freud whispered to his friends: “That boy looks like a fanatic.” The remark, repeated to Dalí, delighted him.

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Ykyx TIL homosexuality wasn’t explicitly banned in the old testament until re-translations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
XEpE TIL The Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is used by the US Department of Education.
66BY TIL the Japanese method of how to iron a shirt in less than 3 minutes, and that Japanese men compete in a huge competition each year to attempt to earn the title of “fastest-shirt-ironer.”
DExv TIL: Five of the world’s ten richest people belong to two families (Koch and Walton)
vNXj TIL the heaviest human being ever recorded weighed 1400 lb. At one point, he also lost approximately 924 lb, the largest human weight loss ever documented.