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TIL after Salvador Dalí and Harpo Marx met and expressed mutual admiration, Dalí sent Harpo a Christmas present: a harp with barbed wire for strings and spoons for tuning knobs, wrapped in cellophane. Harpo was delighted and sent Dalí a photo of himself sitting at the harp with bandaged fingers.

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Xkdr TIL that in the midst of the Vietnam war the dead body of Ho Chi Minh was secretly transported to a jungle cave, where it was embalmed by Soviet experts.
awALZ TIL that cotton reusable bags as well as most other reusable bags create a far greater carbon footprint than plastic bags
ZKa4 TIL that a handful of people survived the mass suicide at Jonestown in 1978 where over 900 people took their lives, including a hearing-impaired man that didn’t hear the announcements over loudspeaker, and an elderly woman who slept through the whole thing.
ERBd TIL of the word “aptronym”, used for a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner, and its opposite, “inaptronym”. Examples of inaptronyms are Frank Beard, the only member of ZZ Top to not have a beard, and Donald Black, white supremacist.
XVNj TIL there have been no successful attempts to reach the Sentinelese people, rendering them completely isolated from the rest of the world