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TIL Vincent van Gogh's painting "Café Terrace at Night" was a rendition of Leonardo da Vinci’s "The Last Supper." The cafe has 12 patrons with 1 tall waiter next to a cross. At that time, van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo that he had a "tremendous need for, shall I say the word—for religion."

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9Y5jD TIL that a man walked across Australia, from Perth to Sydney, dressed in a Stormtrooper costume to raise money for a charity that helps cheer up hospitalized children. Over 9 months he traveled 3000 miles (5000km), lost over 26lbs (12kg), went through 7 pairs of shoes, and raised more than $100,000.
Z8gkD TIL that there's a Japanese political party that's solely dedicated to abolishing the current mandatory payment of subscription fees to NHK, national broadcasting agency. It's called the Party to Protect the People from the NHK.
ZE4Y TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines which states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
9YEnM TIL the phrase "Until the bitter end" doesn't refer to feelings of bitterness, but instead is a Nautical term referring to the end of an Anchor, known as "The Bitter".
j6p8M TIL Tombstone, the 1993 movie about Wyatt Earp, had an actor in the cast named Wyatt Earp. He played Billy Claiborne