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TIL Dali has a painting called “The Great Masturbator”
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TIL that JC Penney marketed items as being higher than their retail price and then put them on sale to create more demand for the regular priced item.
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TIL that there are only 88 recognized constellations and it has been that way since 1928.
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TIL Freddy Krueger was inspired by Wes Craven's experience watching a man in a fedora outside his apartment. "Somehow he sensed that someone was watching, and he looked right up and into my eyes.” Craven retreated, but when he looked out his window again, the man was still there, staring up at him.
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TIL that Mark Haub, a professor at Kansas State University, went on a “convenience store” diet which mainly consisted of Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos to demonstrate that counting calories is what matters most in weight loss, not the nutritional value in food. He lost 27 pounds in only two months.
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TIL the toxic surfactant, Corexit, pumped into the gulf by the hundreds of thousands of gallons by BP after the Deepwater Horizon spill, was 52 more times toxic when in combination with oil. That is to say that the oil left alone by itself would have been less toxic and easier to clean up.