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TIL when casino mogul Steve Wynn was showing off his Picasso painting “Le Reve” [valued at $139mil at time ], he accidentally put he elbow thru the canvas; thus, devaluing it by $54mil.

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KOe69 TIL National Dollar Day on August 8th commemorates the day Congress established the U.S. monetary system in 1786. In 1862, the United States printed its first dollar bill. It wasn’t George Washington face, The first dollar bill featured Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury.
kEBd TIL during WWII 18-year-old Princess - later Queen - Elizabeth joined the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service and worked as a mechanical engineer to help British forces.
Rny7 TIL Eric Clapton and George Harrison once had a two hour long guitar duel for the love of Harrison’s wife, Pattie. She is said to have inspired songs by both artists, such as “Wonderful Tonight” and “Something”.
boaE TIL Stalin hated his son Yakov so much that when he failed to commit suicide by shooting himself Stalin only commented “He can’t even shoot straight.” During the war he was captured by the Germans and Stalin refused to trade any soldiers to bring him back
kO68g TIL the phrase 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' originated in Manhattan where rooms were built on top of one another and when a neighbour took a shoe off and dropped it, you inevitably heard the other one drop as well, hence the phrase meant to await something inevitable which was to happen.