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TIL that David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, is also a DJ. His Spotify profile has 550,000 monthly listeners. He's performed in nightclubs and music festivals in New York, Miami, and the Bahamas.

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awRKN TIL that the first movie to use the "pie in the face" gag was 1909's "Mr. Flip", in which the actor Ben Turpin gets hit with a pie after harassing a waitress.
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0d9vv TIL about Saint Josaphat (aka Būdhasaf), a legendary Christian saint whose life is based on Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. His life story tells of how Josaphat, a son of an Indian kind that persecuted the Christian Church in his kingdom, converted to Christianity.