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TIL that after filming on Tombstone had wrapped, Kurt Russell bought Val Kilmer a plot in Boothill Graveyard as a gift. Kilmer bought Russell an acre of land overlooking Boothill Graveyard.

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b9NY7 TIL Colonel Sanders (which is a the highest honorary title in the State of Kentucky) of KFC fame sold his company in 1964 for only $2 million dollars ($17 million today). He remained as brand ambassador but complained the company had cut costs and made an inferior product than the early days.
VeWm TIL genders of articles affect the way users perceive objects. When asked to describe a “key” (a masculine word in Deutch and feminine in Spanish) Deutch speakers used words like “hard,” “jagged,” “metal,” and Spanish speakers used works like “little,” “lovely,” “shiny,” All testing was in English
GyJg TIL nails grow faster in summer.
YpAOx TIL of Iranian painter Mohamed Sciddel who was commissioned to paint murals in the main church in Uruapan, Michoacán and decided to live the rest of his life in Mexico to promote art in the region after being exiled from Iran following the 1979 revolution
KOabB TIL about Mitsuyasu Maeno, a Japanese porn star who got so mad at a corrupt politician for betraying far right nationalists and violating ancient samurai code that he kamikazed a plane into his house