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TIL Artist Damien Hirst set an art auction record by selling one of his works for $19 million in 2007. The entire work is just a glass case with some random pharmaceutical pills in it.

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Mpg0 TIL that only law abiding citizens must register firearms with the U.S. DOJ Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE). Criminals, or “prohibited persons,” are not required by law to register because it would violate their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
eeAE TIL At the time of JFK’s death He was furious with the CIA about their funding the assassination of the South Vietnamese President and their plans to assassinate Fidel Castro, stating “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”
4keN5 TIL of The Ghost Army. They were a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II. During their tenure, the Ghost Army carried out more than 20 deception campaigns, putting on a "traveling road show" using inflatable tanks, sound trucks, fake radio transmissions, scripts and pretense
nKrb TIL somebody in the 1800’s wrote a song that consisted of nothing but two people meowing at each other. It’s called “Duetto buffo di due gatti” which translates to “Humorous duet for two cats”
7Znp TIL no Burger Kings can open within a 20 mile radius of Mattoon, IL due to another preexisting Burger King unaffiliated with the national chain