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TIL Elizabeth Taylor‘s voluminous eyelashes were caused by a rare genetic mutation which was responsible for her having 2 rows of eyelashes.

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pnj8 TIL In 1985 members of the staff of a “Bestseller” book, placed coupons redeemable for $5 cash inside 70 books that were selling well, and none of them were sent in, proving that they were most likely not read.
V6Zp TIL that the “cost per GFLOPS” (the cost for a computer that would operate at one billion floating-point operations per second) in 1961 was of $1,100,000,000,000 ($1.1 trillion), while nowadays it is of merely $0.08.
Br6oD TIL about cooping, a type of electoral fraud where voters were "cooped" up, given enough alcohol to make them complacent, and tricked into voting for specific candidates.
j9Jp TIL that Salvador Dali was also known to avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on the checks he wrote as he had a theory that the restaurant would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art.
QJdpM TIL The West African diet is heavy on starch, light on meat, generous with fat and commonly cooked together in one pot. Soup or stew which often accompanies the starchy food may also be high in fat, especially the saturated fat from palm oil