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TIL a working-class couple in Harlem with no expertise amassed a collection of art worth over $10 million by slowly buying works directly from up-and-coming artists. Their strategy? “We bought what we liked”

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yQ4ya TIL that one of the key early fundraising tools for the Nazi Sturmabteilung was operating their own cigarette company.
GYDAN TIL there are around 6500 languages spoken in the world today, and 2000 of those languages have less than 1000 speakers
69oW TIL Mentos ran an ad campaign in Singapore urging citizens to have sex on the night of their nation’s independence day to help boost the country’s low birth-rate.
OojAg Today I learned that the family name of Monty Python veteran, John Cleese, was actually Cheese, which his father felt was embarrassing, and changed it to Cleese when he enlisted during WWI. He later made it official by a deed poll in 1923.
0wExv TIL Parisians used to "hang out" in the morgue situated near the Notre Dame de Paris. The macabre attraction used to lure as many as 40.000 visitors per day. There were even street vendors catering to the crowds waiting outside to take a peek at the corpses.