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TIL Switzerland now has a negative interest rate, meaning that banks lose money if they don’t lend and in some circumstances customers lose money if they don’t borrow.

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PX5Z TIL that when Weird Al Yancovic made his video for the song “Fat,” – a parody of Michael Jackson’s song/video Bad,“ he was allowed to use the same set that Michael had recreated for use in his film"Moonwalker.” Michael let Al use the set free of charge.
ANZMg TIL: Lulu (To Sir With Love) had a BBC-TV show in 1968. Her guest once was Jimi Hendrix. He was to perform Hey Joe, and she would join in. Earlier that day the group Cream announced they had broke up. Jimi switched midstream, live on TV, to Sunshine of Your Love. He was banned from BBC-TV.
jNgLE TIL surrealist artist Salvador Dali had a pet anteater, delivered an art lecture wearing a full diving suit with two Russian wolfhounds at his side, and had a lifelong disgust for female genitalia after stumbling upon a picture book of venereal diseases as a child
e8R5 TIL the actor who played Uncle Fester, Jackie Coogan, also starred as the kid with Charlie Chaplin in “The Kid”. After his parents spent almost all of his $3-$4 million earnings, the “Coogan Bill” was passed to protect child actors. He was also a WWII pilot and married to Betty Grable.
rnGW TIL that in Texas in 2009, a Craigslist escort took $150 from a man, refused to have sex, then got in a car and left. The man sprayed her car with his AK-47, killing her. He was acquitted because state law permits the “use of deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.”