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TIL Dali has a painting called “The Great Masturbator”
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TIL that US taxpayers paid $400 Billion ($4500 per household) to fund an internet superhighway infrastructure to be built by AT&T, Centurylink, Verizon, etc., that was never built.
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TIL as a young girl Jeanne Calment, confirmed to have live longer than anyone else in history (and whom died in 1997), met Vincent Van Gogh and remembering him as “Dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable”.
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TIL Regulatory capture is a form of government failure where those bodies regulating industries become sympathetic to the businesses they are supposed to be regulating. Regulatory capture can mean monopolies can continue to charge high prices.
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TIL that when the first complaints of witchcraft had gone out starting the Salem Witch Trials, a church member had a "witch cake" made. They said it was "a means to discover witchcraft". It was made from rye meal and urine from those that were afflicted and then fed to a dog.
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TIL that the B-2 bomber includes an upward facing light sensor, which alerts the pilot to increase or reduce altitude to match the underside paint job to the changing illuminance of the sky to also make it visually stealthy.