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TIL Salvador Dali created a painting titled “Hitler Masturbating.”

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EgG6x TIL that due to Woody Harrelson's raw vegan lifestyle, the Twinkies in the movie "Zombieland", in which he plays a character with an affinity for the treat, were replaced with vegan faux-Twinkies made from cornmeal.
woem7 TIL Samuel L Jackson was an usher for MLK jr.s funeral
jN5kj TIL about "Present Bias" where we give more weightage to payoffs that are closer to the present time when considering an option between two future pay-offs. According to research, managing present bias leads to better prospects in wealth and health.
7rvZ TIL one of the most dangerous books ever made, “Shadows From the Walls of Death,” simply contains samples of arsenic-infused wallpapers.
n9Gr TIL that in the 1880s and 1890s, a camel roamed the Arizona desert for a decade with a corpse strapped to its back