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TIL When Salvador Dali's body was exhumed 28 years after his death, his mustache was still perfectly intact.

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XEP9R TIL That Tracy Chapman, multi-platinum and four time Grammy Award winning artist, says she credits the inspiration to learn guitar as a child came from an American telivision variety show called "Hee Haw" that featured country music and themed backdrop. (corrected)
5YrZr TIL Pizza Hut restaurants in China stopped offering one trip salad bars- due to customer's creating elaborately engineered "salad towers" carefully balanced on one plate.
nWgB TIL The Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that the Earth is a self-regulating organism, was partially developed by Lynn Margulis, a.k.a. Carl Sagan’s wife.
grPRA TIL about the Maine Troop Greeters, a volunteer organisation who have greeted more than a million and a half troops at Bangor International Airport since 1991. No matter the hour, members of all branches of the US military and allies are assured of a handshake, use of a free cell phone and a cookie.
MexLb TIL Sebastian Bach was fired from Skid Row after booking a show where the band would have opened for KISS. The other members refused to perform, saying Skid Row was too big an act to open for KISS. Bach left the band with a message saying "You're never too big to open up for KISS."