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TIL Madonna dated painter Jean-Michel Basquiat before she hit it big

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j7bX TIL Jake Lloyd (Young Anakin from the Phantom Menace) said that Star Wars destroyed his life. He was constantly hounded and harrassed because people hated the character he played so much.
6xZw TIL that to leave a social gathering without saying goodbye to anyone is called the “Irish goodbye” or the “French leave”. The French call it the “filer à l'anglaise”.
ZpXv4 TIL Jenna Ortega choreographed the "Wednesday dance"
DQNp TIL 2/3 of all illiterate adults are female.
N9dN TIL that in Ancient Greece, they used pottery shards to wipe their ass after a dump. Sometimes these pottery fragments would be inscribed with the name of an enemy before being used.