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TIL that after seeing the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux, France, Picasso said, "We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years".

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m1k1o TIL of engineer and chemist Thomas Midgley Jr., who contracted polio at 51. He devised a system of ropes and pulleys for his bed, but became entangled and died of strangulation. He also invented chlorofluorocarbons, which created a hole in the ozone layer, and leaded gasoline.
X8yD TIL after 1250 gallons of mayonnaise went bad at Michigan State University last year, the school’s Sustainability Officer used an anaerobic digester to turn it into energy and power part of the campus.
rR9RW TIL The Rock charges movie companies $1 million to Tweet/IG about his movies
Y1DA TIL: Japanese game-show contestants are actually trained comedians, because the average Japanese person is too reserved to demonstrate the fear and anguish of being conveyored into another man’s butt-cheeks.
PY78e TIL when you receive a bone marrow transplant, your blood’s DNA matches the donor’s for the rest of your life.