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TIL Norman Rockwell suffered from multiple personalities, including Rocky, who was abducted by aliens. Rockwell suffered from multiple psychotic breaks and created dark, sometimes blasphemous art that was never shown.

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J4y8 TIL a white guy in Oakland put a concrete Buddha in a median to stop trash dumping, and it turned into a huge Vietnamese shrine - stopping the dumping but filling his neighborhood with tourists.
Z8nNQ TIL the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormons, has a nuclear warhead proof vault built deep into a mountain in Utah, USA. This vault contains genealogical records on hundreds of millions of people.
epB7D TIL wheeled luggage was first seen as a niche women’s product until the 1970s. Department stores initially refused selling wheeled luggage for fear it would make men feel “wimpy”.
Ddee TIL Locusts are actually grasshoppers that change both physically and behaviorally when in contact with other grasshoppers
E1EEo TIL that in 18th century, the King of Sweden conducted an experiment to prove that caffeine was dangerous. It used two pairs of twins, each with one twin drinking three pots of coffee and the other three pots of tea for the rest of their lives. They all outlived the king and every doctor involved.