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TIL the author of The Three Musketeers & The Count of Monte Cristo was black

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QNVy9 TIL when the University of Minnesota commissioned a local artist to create its mascot (the Golden Gophers), the man they picked had never seen a gopher before. His design was based on chipmunks.
kaLE TIL that Japan imports rice from the U.S. in order to comply with World Trade Organization rules, but little of it is eaten by the Japanese. Instead it is given to North Korea as food aid, fed to pigs or left to rot in warehouses.
ADQlw TIL that Salvator Dali once gave Alice Cooper a plaster sculpture of his brain, crowned by a chocolate eclair with real ants running down the middle. He asked Cooper to model for him. Which he did, under armed guard, since he was wearing a diamond tiara provided by Dali worth $2 million.
9KPD Today I Learned In 2000, a fight broke out while Zevon was performing “Werewolves of London” at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. Zevon stopped, waited for the fight to end, said “I bet this never happens at Sting concerts,” and continued the song.
AVQn TIL that Sir George Everest, the man after whom Mount Everest is named, actually pronounced his name “Eve-rest” and not “Ever-est”