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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."

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neVEd TIL The number of 9/11 aftermath related deaths is set to outnumber the number that died on the day
magE TIL The current image of what everyone thinks Jesus looks like is actually 15th Century Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. Alexander VI commissioned Leonardo Di Vinci to recast Jesus in the image of his own beloved son Cesare Borgia.
WkJ98 TIL the Peruvian Navy still actively operates a ship that was built in England in 1862, disassembled into small pieces and shipped across the Atlantic, and carried by mules over 220 miles to Lake Titicaca to be reassembled. Its sister ship (sent the same way) also still works on the lake.
8a0DK TIL That in addition to cars, Mitsubishi also produces rockets to launch satellites and probes for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA).
P1JYG TIL "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen" wasn't just a nonsense ditty but was the theme song of a national organization started by the Hearst newspaper chain, and had 578,000 members at it peak in 1937