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TIL that by the 17th century in Europe it was a well-established fact that the only people who smiled broadly, in life and in art, were the poor, the lewd, the drunk and the innocent.

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6Ej4w TIL that every baseball used in MLB is conditioned with a specific “baseball rubbing mud”, which has been provided by one family for 3 generations.
oBOPK TIL 4 out of 5 millennials have never eaten a Big Mac before, showing how McDonald's is struggling to compete with new, fast-casual burger joints
ANKn TIL a Dad ran into the 400m semifinals of an olympic race to help his son finish after he pulled his hamstring.
NV8P TIL casino magnate Steve Wynn had once reached an agreement to sell Picasso’s ‘La Reve’ for $139 million, which would have been the largest artwork sale in history, when he accidentally stuck his elbow through the painting while showing it to Barbara Walters.
v1YpD TIL that Richard Stanley the film director once escaped from war torn Afghanistan with his wounded cameraman after he took the LSD he had with him.. He said the LSD saved his life as he could see in the dark and believed he could smell the land mines....