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TIL An advertising campaign for Swedish fashion company “H&M” with posters of Anna Nicole Smith caused several car accidents in major European cities in 1994.

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GYARG TIL The Notorious B.I.G. wrote the song What’s Beef with lyrics, “my ngga Gutter fckin kidnap kids,” and “fck em in the ss throw em over the bridge.”
rRyrd TIL In 1964, a Swedish art gallery displayed 4 paintings by unknown artist Pierre Brassau. Every single art critic praised the ‘avant-garde’ work- except one, who said, ‘only an ape could have done this’. In fact it was all a hoax by a journalist and 'Brassau’ was actually a 4-year-old chimpanzee.
NXAG6 TIL of the Iffland-Ring, a ring awarded to the most significant actor of the German-speaking theatre according to its previous owner, who pass on the ring by will. It was also considered cursed when, in 1954, Albert Bassermann's candidates all died shortly after being nominated as the recipient.
9wAbM TIL: the majority of sold/produced oysters have an extra set of chromosomes making them sterile.
X0D8E TIL the dot over lowercase “i” is called a tittle