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TIL that there is a casting agency in London for ugly people. Its domain name is ugly.org.

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A19l TIL Leonard Cohen’s manager took $5 million from him and sold the rights to his music over time to pay her credit cards among other things leaving him with $150,000. He never retrieved the money and basically said he hoped she would learn from it and be a better person.
VBkVB TIL pigeons can be trained to diagnose cancer from biopsy images with the same accuracy as medical pathologists
gr77D TIL Stone Age Europeans may have practiced human sacrifice, including live burial under houses…
w96M TIL a Canadian native and animal trapper called Grey Owl gained prominence in the early 1900s as a respected environmental conservationist. Upon his death it was revealed that he was actually a transplanted Englishman named Archibald Belaney, who had been colouring his skin and dying his hair black.
dwd TIL Nixon was recorded saying “Every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob”