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MeWRW TIL When Rick James attended a dinner party in Hawaii with Salvador Dali, Dali insisted on drawing him, sketched him on a napkin and gave it to him. The priceless memento became an inky blob the next morning when he smoked a joint and went swimming with the napkin still in his swim trunks.
6oNl TIL Peter Capaldi was the lead singer in a punk rock band called Dreamboys, whose drummer was future comedian Craig Ferguson.
w9eo TIL that the iconic baker known as Betty Crocker never actually existed, and was merely a marketing tool created by General Mills.
v1AZj TIL The ritual of releasing doves in the Olympics originated in 1896. The ritual was altered to be purely symbolic after the doves released in the 1988 Seoul Olympics landed on the Olympic Torch and were burnt alive when it was lit.
Oa4R TIL in Finland, It is a legal requirement to have your headlights on, whether in summer or winter, in sunlight or darkness, even under the midnight sun.