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TIL the iconic mascot of Mad Magazine - Alfred E. Newman was actually from the magazine The Eternal Optimist - published in 1914, also contained the phrase "Me worry?"

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W7RQ9 TIL about the most prolific art smuggler in US law enforcement history, Subhash Kapoor. The true extent of loot taken from countries around the world is unknown but one of the statues stolen from India went for 5 million dollars -- sold to the National Gallery of Australia.
ZpKBv TIL Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright was fired from the band by Roger Waters during album production for "The Wall" but stayed on as a salaried musician. Wright stayed on salary for the Album's elaborate tour and was thus the only member of the band to profit from it, which lost about £400,000.
j7vN TIL that in October of 2014, Amanda Bynes tweeted that her father sexually abused her as a child. She later claimed that this was not the case, and a microchip implanted in her brain forced her to say it.
dNVB TIL in 1984, the then-Baltimore Colts were moved to Indianapolis in secret in the middle of the night, with 15 moving trucks taking different routes to avoid being seized by the State of Maryland under eminent domain.
a8pZy TIL Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, is an altered mental state in which a person can drive a car, truck, or other automobile great distances, responding to external events in the expected, safe, and correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so.