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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.

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OoN57 TIL: You can "TAKE YOUR SECRET TO THE GRAVE" without dying. A hollow tombstone in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery has a slot for depositing papers bearing secrets. (But at your own risk: the artist who says she'll burn the papers has done "performance art" of reading aloud her own dead mom's diary.)
ADQy7 TIL that the common tumbleweed (Kali tragus), although used in Westerns to symbolize frontier areas of the United States, is actually an invasive plant from Russia. In the 1870s, it appeared in South Dakota when flaxseed from Russia turned out to be contaminated with Kali seeds.
m1XNE TIL that a Loofah is a vegetable, specifically a member of the pumpkin, squash, and gourd family, and can be eaten if harvested early enough.
P1LDO TIL that when on shore leave in Singapore, members of the Royal Australian Navy used to get atop a public toilet building in Bugis and perform “The Dance of the Flaming Arseholes”
VMvYD TIL In 1984, OSHA fined a company $640, after a rocket motor fell on an employee and crushed him against the securing beams.