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TIL that the weight of silverware in restaurants impacts how much a customer is willing to pay for their meal

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KaKw TIL after Lenny Bruce died cops wanted his body and death scene to look more like a junkie for news photographers. They posed him, pulled his pants down, and put a box of syringes by his body.
l76RN TIL: Timothy Dexter was an eccentric businessman known for his improbably successful investments. He was fooled to send bed warmers to the West Indies (hot), but sold them as ladles, he exported stray cats to the Caribbean who used them to kill rats, etc. He also told people his wife was a ghost.
gMYBy TIL the plane with the longest wingspan to ever fly is the Stratolaunch, it has only flown once.
nW8rY TIL Metallica released a video in 2012 appealing for help to solve the 2009 murder of a 20yo fan, Morgan Harrington, who disappeared after their show. They offered $50K on top of the $100K by police.
mxQov TIL that all bananas are slightly radioactive. All Potassium-rich food contains small levels of radiation, but don't worry. You would only experience symptoms if you ate 274 bananas a day for 7 years.