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TIL Andy Warhol ejaculated on canvas and it sold for $40,000

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awadZ TIL Certain oak tree populations will synchronize to produce almost no acorns, only to rain them down excessively the following year, known as a "mast" year. The year preceding the mast year is thought to starve off the mammal populations feeding on the acorns.
D1Vyr TIL humid air is lighter than dry air. This is why low-pressure areas (L) bring the rain, not the high-pressure areas (H). And this is because water (H2O) molecules are actually lighter than Oxygen (O2) and Nitrogen (N2) that make up the atmosphere.
mx0bO TIL that my hometown, Bologna - in Italy - freed all the slaves, and thence banned slavery, in 1256 AD. To celebrate the newly freed men, they had all their names written down in a document called Liber Paradisus (Heaven's Book).
GANGg TIL that Kenny Rogers was singing at a private event of a hedge fund manager and asked to repeat 'The Gambler's over and over, being offered additional pay per song. After a dozen times and having earned $4 million, he refused to sing.
WZRo TIL Hitler had a pet alligator(Mississippi alligator), named Saturn, now age 85, that Russians were gifted by British government and it still lives and can be seen in Moscow Zoo.