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TIL that when David Bowie played his song “Andy Warhol” to Andy Warhol he did not like it. When the song had finished playing, Warhol and Bowie reportedly just stared at each other for a while until Warhol said “I like your shoes” and the pair then had a conversation about shoes.

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J1jOB TIL The Japanese art form of Kusôzu, which means “painting of the nine stages of a decaying corpse”, portrays the sequential decay of a cadaver, usually female, in graphic detail. The paintings are meant to encourage contemplation on the repulsive aspects of the body and discourage sexual desire.
vPdGB TIL Fanny Longfellow, wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, died tragically after her dress caught on fire
pjjO TIL There is a $1000 Canadian Bill (discontinued after 2000) and in 2012 there was still 946,043 unaccounted for.
Y7eEv TIL that the Battle of Spioenkop, which took place in South Africa in 1900, saw Winston Churchill couriering messages to the frontlines and Mahatma Ghandi serving as a stretcher-bearer.
JYOg1 TIL, the traditional cowboy look arose from Mexican vaqueros and the word buckaroo came about as a mispronunciation of the word vaquero