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TIL that the Louvre (Paris) is so big it would actually take me 100 days to see each piece of art of the museum, spending 30 seconds in front of each piece and being in the museum 24/7.

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BrOLL TIL that the monsters in the 2008 movie "Dark Floors" are actually a band from Finland called "Lordi" They made the movie after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006
9wPKB TIL that censors in Tsarist Russia did not censor Das Kapital upon its publication because they believed that "very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it."
ra80 TIL that Gutzon Borglum, the designer of the Mount Rushmore National Monument, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and that the Ku Klux Klan helped fund the monument.
R5aj9 TIL American rapper Jay-Z stabbed a man in at an album release party, with a 5-inch blade in the stomach, after rumours the man was behind the bootlegging of one of his albums. He later pleaded guilty to third-degree assault, accepting a 3-year probation sentence.
ryaw TIL Bruce Willis has publicly sold Girl Scout cookies for the United States armed forces. His daughter, Tallulah, sold him on the idea of buying cookies and sending them to troops in the Middle East. He did so and bought 12,000 cookies.