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TIL with enough money anyone can play Carnegie Hall, no audition or invitation needed. You can rent it like any other theater.

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R7ZX9 TIL that farmers in India used to catch monkeys by putting peanuts in coconuts and walking up to them. The holes in the coconut had to be big enough to allow them to slip their hands inside and small enough so that when they grabbed the peanuts and formed a fist they couldn't take their hands out.
R5Zbl TIL of the ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station, the largest still operational steam-powered pumping station in the world.
58J9 TIL The Voice of Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid wrote the screenplays for Watchmen, X-Men, and X2: X-Men United
6EmYm TIL about Jheri Redding, a Caucasian chemist who invented the Jheri Curl, a popular hairstyle for African-Americans in the 80s.
jnkj TIL that in the 1930s, parents used to keep their babies in cages on their windowsill in order to make sure they got enough air and sunshine in tall apartment buildings.