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TIL the Mona Lisa has its own mailbox in which the painting receives fan mail and flowers addressed to it.

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OoDme TIL the farthest a person has ever fallen and survived is at least 33,330 feet. Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic was blown out of a plane when a bomb went off in its baggage compartment in 1972. She had no memory of the event and wasn't afraid to fly afterward.
61M8 TIL That child support in Canada is based on past income not current income. People can be ordered by the court to pay more money than they make or have ever made. If Dave Foley returns to Canada he will go to jail because the child support payments are now literally impossible.
xVdB1 TIL that the spacesuits for the first moon landing were made by Playtex, a company famous for making bras and girdles. NASA had staged a competition to see who could make the best suit. Playtex officials essentially had to beg to be allowed to submit a suit design into the competition.
rNX9e TIL Dave Grohl was such fan of 1980 Team USA gold medal-winning hockey goalie Jim Craig that he called up all Jim Craigs in the Easton Massachusetts area until he connected with the real Jim Craig. Dave and the real Jim Craig met years later at a Winter Olympics.
YpyPW TIL of Shibari, a term for erotic bondage inspired by Japanese aesthetics. This style of bondage involves tying a person up using visually intricate patterns with several pieces of thin rope, usually emphasizing the person’s physical features.