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TIL that after watching The Godfather, members of the Patriarca crime family started “philosophizing” and improved their grammar.

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nellB TIL in medieval manuscripts there are many depictions of knights fighting giant snails. There's no solid reason why.
j67gn TIL that in 2009, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi publicly called for the dissolution of Switzerland and for its territory to be divided among France, Italy and Germany
p8Xr8 TIL about the arrow of time paradox. Events at the microscopic level are time-symmetric, meaning that if time were symmetrical, a video of those events would seem realistic whether played forwards or backwards. But this isn't the case at the macroscopic level. There is no good explanation for this.
RlW7 TIL Andre Agassi played a Davis Cup match in 1992 wearing a pair of Oakley sunglasses to hide the fact that he was hungover from the previous night’s drinking. Jim Jannard of Oakley then sent him a new Dodge Viper to thank him for the endorsement.
v1ayx TIL on Oct. 12, 2013, an unassuming elderly man set up a stand in Central Park of original, signed Banksy canvases for sale at $60 each. It was part of Banksy's month-long "residency" in New York City and wasn't announced to the public until the next day. Only eight pieces of art were sold that day.