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TIL every Chili’s restaurant has one upside down picture hanging in it, and it’s a challenge to customers to find it.

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Ve5B TIL special care was taken while restoring Shakespeare’s grave to ensure that his bones remained untouched as the epitaph on his tombstone reads: “Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, and cursed be he that moves my bones.”
yQlvM TIL HMS Porcupine was blown in half by a German torpedo, the two halves were towed back to the UK and recommissioned as two ships; HMS Pork and HMS Pine
Y8A TIL that Elvis Presley hated John Lennon and wanted to beat him up for his anti-war stance.
vnYx TIL That the Nazi Salute is said to have originated from the Roman Empire, but no surviving Roman art or text describes the salute. 18th century French painters labeled the gesture as the “Roman Salute”, and was adopted by European fascists in the early 1900s.
kJWJ1 TIL in 1900, an unknown boy was hired as coswain by the Dutch team for the Olympic rowing event. The team received a gold medal