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TIL Martha Stewart was in a relationship with Anthony Hopkins and broke up with him after watching Silence of the Lambs, saying she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter

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E18Ld TIL of the Rhinoceros Party, a political party in Canada planning to make "Sorry" the new official motto of Canada and who wants to rise up the number of green cars by forcing manufacturers to build more cars in different shades of green.
9Gy7 TIL in 1923, a Mississippi association developed an influential set of recommendations about street-sign shapes whose impact is still felt today. The recommendations were based on a simple, albeit not exactly intuitive, idea: the more sides a sign has, the higher the danger level it invokes.
yZ6e TIL in 1976, then 16-year-old “Weird” Al Yankovic started his career by handing a homemade tape of original and parody songs performed on the accordion in his bedroom into a “cheesy little tape recorder” to Dr Demento, a radio DJ who was speaking at his school.
kOlE4 TIL the Korean Gong clan of Qufu, their ancestors was Confucius. there are 7.4K members in Korea (According to the research held in 2000), including some famous Kpop and Kdrama stars
nedd7 TIL that on Dec. 3, 1965 Keith Richards nearly died when his guitar touched a microphone stand, sending a massive electrical surge through his body and a flame out of the microphone. It is speculated that he survived only because of the thick soles of his suede Hush Puppies.