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TIL Macaulay Culkin bought Marilyn Manson his first pack of cigarettes

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DXAP TIL that Frank Sinatra once drunkenly tipped a valet $200, asking him if that was the biggest tip he ever received. When the valet responded “no” Sinatra asked him who had tipped him more. The valet responded “why you did, Mr. Sinatra. Last week!”
ADlB7 TIL the boardgame "Chutes and Ladders" is based on an Indian game called "Snakes and Ladders." The original game dates back to the 2nd century B.C. and was meant to teach children morality. The snakes symbolized vice, the ladders virtue. Ironically, the game relies entirely on luck, not strategy.
oBNxR TIL: In the '60s a researcher put 3 men who believed themselves to be Jesus in a support group together, and all three ended up believing the others were wrong and they were still Jesus and the others were robots after much arguing over their divinity
kOXAm TIL Korea was a unified country under the Choson dynasty from 1392 until 1910. In Chinese, the two Koreas are given distinct country names, with Chaoxian for the North, Hanguo for the South
1abvd TIL that Daniel Hale Williams founded the first black-owned hospital and performed the first successful heart surgery in the world!