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TIL an 'audiophile' once spent $10K to build his own 40-ft utility pole on his backyard just to listen to 'purer music'

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OoBG7 TIL of Henry Darger, he worked as a janitor to a hospital and after his death people discovered by coincidence two long illustrated fantasy novels and another book. He wrote more than 30,000 pages without telling anyone.
KYlpw TIL that the guillotine has been used in North America. In 1889, someone was executed with it in the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. It had to be shipped in.
ZBK4 TIL that doing the Nazi salute in Germany is punishable by up to six months in prison.
9YJEX TIL In 2010, a thief broke into the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and stole five paintings worth €100 million ( $123 million USD). Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, commented, "These five paintings are unsellable, so thieves, sirs, you are imbeciles, now return them." The art has not been recovered.
QQd9 TIL up to 100,000 people in Hong Kong live in “Cage Homes” - a 6ft x 2ft metal cage covering a bed