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rNaOM TIL The Colors on a Barber Pole would have a Blue Stripe if a Berber Also performed Medical Procedures
a8NNJ TIL In 1983 heavy metal fan and author Stephen King was so annoyed when the local radio station changed its rock format that be bought the station to switch back to play what he wanted
Y7j1Z TIL The sky movement in Van Gogh's brushwork in his Starry Night painting mimics modern scientific theories of turbulence and atmospheric physics
nWGoG TIL about Botulf Botulfsson, the only person executed for heresy in Sweden. He denied that the Eucharist was the body of Christ, telling a priest: "If the bread were truly the body of Christ you would have eaten it all yourself a long time ago." He was burned in 1311.
gMKOb TIL: Charlie Chaplin made the Hitler taunting film, "The Incomparable Despot", in 1940 utilizing his own cash since none of the Hollywood studios were happy with infuriating the Germans as they had money related relations with them. The film is said to be perhaps the best work of Charlie Chaplin.