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TIL Darryl McCauley was responsible for defrauding his half-brother, Dane Cook (Celebrity Comedian). Dane Cook hired Darryl as a business manager and he stole at least 12 million dollars from Dane.

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4Xkro A painting that went for $60 in 1958 sold for a record $450 million at a Christie’s auction in November 2017, the highest price ever paid for a painting. That’s because the piece—known as Salvator Mundi, or “Savior of the World”—was identified as a work by Leonardo da Vinci in 2011. Painted around the same time as the Mona Lisa, it is one of fewer than 20 known paintings by the Renaissance master.
gan7 TIL there are more bikes than people in the Netherlands, and that their cities are planned to accomodate to bikes rather than cars
d8jeK TIL Barbed wire fences were used for telegraph transmission in rural areas.
JOV TIL that there are more Americans in the Philippines than in the UK.
7r7e7 TIL there's a hotel in Sweden that requires fire alarms despite it being made entirely of ice