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TIL Salvador Dali would avoid paying his tabs by drawing on the checks he wrote, making the checks a valuable piece of art.

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pPWG TIL that breast cancer is one of the most survivable cancers over a five year period
9Y7ED TIL California was named after a mythical island of black women who kept man-eating griffins as pets
D1oYp TIL of the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, one of the biggest known flying animals of all time. It stood about as tall as a giraffe and had a wingspan as wide as the length of a gas tanker truck.
p80Jp TIL that Ethiopia's Salt Ponds Contain One of the Few Places Life Cannot Survive on Earth: The Dallol pools are likely so hot, salty and acidic that even extremophile microbes are unable to enter.
V0y0 TIL in 2007, the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after being found outside the Israeli Embassy drunk, hands tied, and wearing only a corset and bondage gear. The police only discovered his identity after removing the ball gag from his mouth.