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TIL Salvador Dali was a cheapskate who liked to appear generous to his friends by inviting them to fancy restaurants. When it was time to pay the bill, he would write out a check then doodle a sketch on the reverse, knowing that the restauranteur would never cash a check bearing one of his sketches

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J1MwV TIL: In the recently highlighted city of Uvalde, TX you can SHOOT LITTERAL TANKS AND RPGS!!!??!!??!!?? WTF TX. Yall are making killing machines into tourist attractions!!!!
JBl8 TIL there is a company, named Maximum Performance, that creates fake poop for testing new toilet designs. Pic at the link.
N7oy6 TIL of Griselda Balco, Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and pioneer in the Miami cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s. It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 2000 murders while transporting cocaine. She was shot and killed in 2012.
wDrJ TIL Jupiter is a “cosmic vacuum cleaner.” Its gravitational influence causes comets and asteroids to collide with it. The rate of impacts on Jupiter is about 2000-8000X higher than the rate on Earth. Without Jupiter, the probability of asteroid impacts with the inner planets would be much greater.
Oo5ka TIL A key symptom of depression is anhedonia, typically defined as the loss of ability to experience pleasure. It is a core feature of depression, but it is also one of the most treatment-resistant symptoms. Using ketomine, researchers found over-activity in the brain blunting reward seeking