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TIL the CIA sponsored exhibitions of Jackson Pollock’s work in order to globally popularize abstract expressionism and devalue socialist realism

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E1N0P TIL: Mara Wilson in Matilda was embarrassed about dancing on her own during the cereal scene, so Danny DeVito made everyone in the studio dance with her when filming.
DkYv TIL That Larry, the Chief Mouser of the Cabinet Office, has had his position fall under scrutiny due to both the competitive performances of the Chief Mouser of the Treasury (Gladstone) and the Chief Mouser of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Palmerston), and his own “lack of killer instinct”.
bn7j TIL that the company Daisy Outdoor Products sold windmills and gave a complementary BB guns with every purchase. The BB guns became so popular that they stopped selling windmills and started selling BB guns.
KKgB TIL that despite the UK representing just 0.9% of the global population, it has 15.9% of the world’s most highly-cited scientific research articles.
b6mOj TIL that a Florida attorney, E.E. Calloway, believed that the area around Florida’s Torreya State Park was the site of the biblical Garden of Eden and created a tourist attraction where people could tour the site. He also believed the torreya trees in the park were used to build Noah’s Ark.