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TIL Salvador Dali avoided paying restaurant tabs by using checks. He would draw on the back as the waiter watched, knowing no one would ever cash the art.

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E1rWX TIL On a trip to Nepal, Apollo astronaut Stu Roosa met Nepalese who believe the spirits of their dead reside on the Moon. Roosa could not understand why a few of the local citizens treated him like a god, nor why they were distressed when he told them he saw no one else on the Moon
WkZvd TIL the first-ever professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, went undefeated for their first 71 games.
9Yen7 Today I learned that conservationists recycle Wimbledon tennis balls as predator-proof shelters for Harvest Mice (The mice you see pictured sleeping in tulips).
oRZmE TIL that beavers have iron teeth - literally.
QJeKk TIL that the coin at the coin-toss of an NFL game didn't flip. After the coin was tossed, it landed on the same face without flipping at all. They had to redo the toss.