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TIL Coca-Cola Owns All 61 URLs From Ahh.com to Ahh-With-60-More-‘H’s.com

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b664 TIL that when James French was executed by the electric chair in 1966, his last words were “How’s this for a headline? French fries.”
84o4 TIL in 1973 the artist Salvador Dali did a painting depicting Adolf Hitler masturbating on a snowy hillside
LQoNP TIL that St. Urho's Day is observed every March 16th, celebrating his driving grasshoppers out of Finland and saving the grapes for the Finnish wine industry
78xyx TIL that only female mosquitoes drink blood, because they need the protein and iron to develop eggs
nWeWr TIL that in 1965, artist Andy Warhol made an 8-hour, B&W silent film called “Empire” that consisted of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building. It had no characters or narrative, and Warhol stated that the purpose of the film was “to see time go by.”