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TIL Art Garfunkel has kept a list of every book he's read since 1968, and lists Fifty Shades of Grey among his favorites

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ne8bo TIL Small Wisconsin town in 1967 planned to secede from state after accidentally being removed off the official highway map. Also there's a musical about it.
8aXEX TIL that an Israeli couple were forced to pay over $2000 for an apartment they never rented because their use of smiley and champagne emojis in a text with the prospective landlord conveyed "great optimism", causing him to take the property off the market.
N1n1 TIL about Maharaja Alwar. During a visit to the Rolls Royce showroom in England, he was treated disrespectfully due to his race. He then proceeded to buy 7 rolls royce cars and use them for garbage disposal in his palace. Rolls Royce wrote him a apology and asked him not to tarnish their reputation.
QNd0k TIL that in 1948 comedy writers at the BBC were forbidden to make jokes about lavatories and effeminacy in men or make suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, prostitution, ladies' underwear, animal habits (e.g. rabbits), lodgers, and commercial travellers.
lo6X1 Today I learned that there is no worldwide uniformity on how many continents there are, and many are taught that North America and South America is just America or The Americas.