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TIL Stop signs used to be BLACK ON YELLOW

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R5pB1 TIL that Vincent Price was not only an actor and art historian, but also a gourmet chef, and he released not one, not two, but four cookbooks during his lifetime! Price also recorded a number of audio cooking tutorials titled "International Cooking Course."
gr5jA TIL there was a famous Japanese game show in which diehard baseball fan contestants were locked individually in small rooms for an entire baseball season: if their favorite team won each night they got dinner for the evening, if their team lost the lights would be turned out until the next win.
nDXo TIL Sir James Milne Wilson achieved the extremely rare feat of being both born on 29 February and dying on 29 February.
9YpKB TIL Einstein mused that he would have liked to have been a plumber, and promptly was awarded honorary membership in the plumbers’ union
Oo6n6 TIL that Bob Marley's song 'War' is almost totally an artistic interpretation of Hailie Selassie's 1963 address to the United Nations.