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TIL in 2016 Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan created a fully-functional 18K-gold toilet titled "America" worth an estimated $6M. It was stolen in 2019 and the artist himself congratulated the thieves and praised their feat as performance art.

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69A98 TIL the name of the video game "Doom" (1993) comes from a quote said by Tom Cruise's character in the film "The Color of Money" (1987). The quote in question is "What you got in there? / In here? Doom.".
1mrP TIL that germans refused to believe that Hitler will really do all things he announced years before election in “Mein Kampf”
grwkD TIL that Nazi food scienists made synthetic butter (margarine) out of coal
Me80 TIL in 1778, Thomas Jefferson authored a bill that would change the penalty for rape or sodomy from death, to castration.
b94v4 TIL of Merck, the 352 year old pharmaceutical company responsible for the introduction of cocaine, morphine and invention of MDMA