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TIL that Salvador Dali used to avoid paying at restaurants by drawing on checks. He knew that the owner would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art.

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Z85jo TIL In 2003 ABC aired a reality show called "Are You Hot?: The Search for America's Sexiest People" with a panel of judges including Lorenzo Lamas & Rachel Hunter evaluating contestants on the sole criterion of their physical attractiveness. It was cancelled after 6 episodes due to low ratings.
DPGr TIL in Japanese Mafia, the ritual of cutting off finger for penance comes from the traditional way of holding a sword. The removal of digits starting with the little finger moving up to the index finger weakens sword grip. So that a person with a weak sword grip then has to rely more on the group.
Wk1ld TIL in 1992 Toronto Blue Jays baseball player Joe Carter pulled an amazing prank on teammate Derek Bell by pretending to raffle off his car mid-game. He rode onto the field in it and the announcer read off a fake winning ticket
GAmG1 TIL That until 2022, the Japanese Public School System forced schoolgirls in Japan were forced to wear specific colours of underwear and were forced to have dyed black hair in school.
oBAaY TIL that George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party in 1959 (which is still around today) was murdered by a previous party member that he expelled in 1967 for trying to inject Marxist views in their publications