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TIL showers were invented as a deliberately unpleasant treatment to cure the insane

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D17OY TIL the guitars on the 1983 David Bowie song "Modern Love" were played by Texas bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan and funk guitarist Nile Rogers of the dance band Chic.
8aDLL TIL North Korea has 1 of the biggest art factories, which makes both state propaganda, and colossal monuments that many countries have bought eg, Senegal’s African Renaissance Monument, in Dakar, 164 feet tall, taller than Rio de Janeiro’s Cristo Redentor
MeQvm TIL that author Douglas Adams once got an offering of £50,000 to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy calendar. A few weeks later, having done no work towards it, another call came saying the deal had fallen through but that he would still be paid half the fee. He celebrated with champagne.
877G TIL Bic pen lids have holes in them so if ever inhaled the risk of suffocation is minimised
Ooe87 TIL: Wales can trace its throne in continual rulership back to the Romano-British, making it technically the last Roman rump state left in Europe.