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TIL Salvador Dali would avoid paying tabs by drawing on checks. The drawing would be too valuable to cash the check.

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wL4jJ TIL there are rocks in California that are highly-polished from the suspected rubbing extinct Columbian Mammoths performed on them 1,000s of years ago during the Ice Age.
oR4jW TIL the most widely read Nigerian novelists writing in English, including Helon Habila, Teju Cole, Adichie, reside outside of Nigeria. Starting from Chinua Achebe, novels written by African authors were almost always published in the West first
paAQ TIL that the smallest form of the US Dollar is the mill. It is worth 1/1000 of a dollar and used mostly in accounting and oil prices.
jNEyj TIL of Benjamin Lay, an 18th century Quaker dwarf with a hunchback who challenged the ideas of slavery, meat-eating, and racism. He also lived in a cave with his wife. (There is truly a lid for every pot.)
0d9LL TIL that Scientology has a track in CA, where members run around in a circle for up to 12 hours.