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TIL Salvador Dali was known for his eccentric behavior, some of the things he did include filling a Rolls Royce Phantom 2 with 500kg of cauliflowers, and having a pet ocelot named Babou.

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R75lw National Geographic Fellow Jer Thorp explains the process behind designing "We Were Once Strangers Too," an award-winning public data sculpture that highlighted the role of immigrants in New York City.
rRnmy TIL of Taro Tsujimoto, a fictional Ice Hockey player created by the Buffalo Sabres. Fed up with how long the 1974 draft was taking, the Sabres drafted a fake player named after a local Japanese shop. The NHL made the pick official and only found out just before the start of training camps that year.
7rDQr TIL that Frida Kahlo grew up during a revolution, and the nationalism that followed would inspire her art.
neNrB TIL that Nigeria has a space program and has successfully launched several satellites into orbit.
VB6WQ TIL about Hanatarash, a Japanese noise band that used power tools, drills, and heavy machinery as their instruments. In 1985, at one of their shows, the frontman Yamantaka Eye drove through the back wall of the venue with an excavator and proceeded to throw a molotov cocktail at the wreckage.