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TIL Dali began selling signed blank sheets of canvas, originally intended as lithographs, to the market, allowing for counterfeiting and forgeries. Around 350,000 authentic Dali blank sheet signatures were released, but in 2016 over 12,000 fakes were seized, one which was estimated at $6.75 million.

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8eAmV TIL About Billy Mitchell who pushed for air power between WWs 1 and 2. He proved air superiority by bombing captured german warships after WW1 using bombers. For his efforts he was court marshaled and resigned from the military. After his death, he was given a Congressional Medal of Honor
Rnd6 TIL- Quaker Oates and MIT conducted an experiment on unsuspecting, mentally retarded children. They tricked them into eating radioactive cereal by telling them they were in a “science club.”
8e44 TIL that Chevy Chase and Anderson Cooper are cousins.
mxoMv TIL in 2010 when the University of Mississippi began the process to find a new mascot, a group of students started a campaign to have Admiral Ackbar selected. Some students threatened to transfer, and some prospective parents said they would not let their children attend if he was chosen.
KOGaa TIL of Marthe Cohn, a French holocaust survivor who served as a spy for the French army. In November 1944, she manipulated a SS officer into divulging the location of the Germany army, allowing the allies to avoid a major ambush. At 100, she is still alive today.