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TIL that, in Mexico, artists may pay their taxes with Artwork

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kJBbW TIL that, although most people associate the character of Igor (or Ygor) as Dr. Frankenstein's hunchbacked lab assistant, the character did not appear in the original 1931 film. The hunchbacked assistant was named Fritz. In the original novel, Dr. Frankenstein doesn't even have an assistant.
xVdx0 TIL - Ketchup originally was made with mushrooms, with the mushroom version being popular around 1750. The tomato version only appeared about 100 years later.
ERkW TIL Astronauts, during spacewalks, face the danger of their fingernails detaching from their nailbeds, a condition called “fingernail delamination”
gMd59 TIL that Viggo Mortensen bought the horse his character Aragon rode on during Lord of the Rings because he got so attached to it.
NPLQ TIL One out of every four bridges in America either carries more traffic than originally intended or is in need of repair.