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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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Wpno TIL Disneyland & Walt Disney World Rescue, Care For, Spay/Neuter and ‘Employ’ Hundreds Of Feral Cats To Help Control Mouse Population On Park Grounds
Rvow TIL of a social experiment a teacher created in the 80s to show kids that a “New Hitler” could emerge at any time. The movie based on the true story is called The Wave.
Nw7N TIL that the reason all videos are subtitled on Netflix is because the National Association for the Deaf filed a class-action lawsuit against them in 2010.
nk57 TIL of Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
ADx4d TIL of Toupie Lowther, the first openly lesbian woman in sport, who toured the tennis tournaments of Europe in her open-top Mercedes-Benz, had a science degree from the Sorbonne, was a fencer, a practitioner of jujitsu, and assembled a mutlinational all-woman ambulance unit she led to the WWI front.