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TIL ‘The Starry Night’ depicts Vincent Van Gogh’s view from the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum.

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QJQL9 TIL In 1968 the Ford Motor Co. set the value of a life at $200,000. When performing a risk/benefit analysis deciding if fixing a major fuel tank issue was worth paying $11 per car ($137M), or instead paying 200k per death (Est $50M). They didn't fix it, Which nearly ended up costing $145M in court.
16bbd TIL there is a 191,000 square foot mansion, with 50-car garage, in Brasil
Z8OyQ TIL Dissecting human bodies was taboo in antiquity up to the 16th century. The only people to systematically do it before then were Erasistratus and Herophilus from Alexandria. Their work pioneered medicine and anatomy but was criticized by contemporaries, especially their practice of vivisections
YnVP TIL a 15 year old hacked NASA computers and caused a 21 day shutdown of their computers. Oh, and he hacked the Pentagon too…
OEyL TIL that the James Taylor song “Suite for 20 G” was so named because Taylor was promised $20,000 once the album was delivered. With one more song needed to finish the album, he strung together three unfinished songs into a “suite,” ensuring his payment.