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WkNN8 TIL that game show winnings in the U.S., including non-cash prizes, are highly taxed. Taxes can surpass 50% depending on which state the winner lives in.
rRxL1 TIL in 2001, a scientist successfully trained pigeons to distinguish between paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Marc Chagall - including paintings the pigeons had never seen before.
XAZk TIL that if you post a funny video to YouTube and it starts to get popular, a producer from America’s Funniest Home Videos might ask you to take down the video and sign over exclusive rights in exchange for a chance at winning $100,000. The creator of “David after Dentist” turned down such an offer.
jNZ7n TIL of Hermann Grassmann, an untrained Prussian mathematician who created linear algebra (the central tool of quantum mechanics) 65 years before it found it's use in QM. For most of his life he was considered a crackpot but received an honourary PhD shortly before he died.
PRWg TIL: MGM studio placed 16 year old Judy Garland on a diet of chicken soup, black coffee, cigarettes, and amphetamines to keep her appetite under control