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TIL At one point Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' were being serialized in the same Russian magazine

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M7by8 TIL if you fall asleep on a Tarantino set, you will be photographed with a 3-foot dildo named "Big Jerry" next to your face and placed on the wall of shame. If you remove it, it will be enlarged and placed back on the wall. If you remove it again, it will be printed on t-shirts for the entire crew.
NOWe TIL that the head of the CIA had his AOL email account hacked by a teenager in 2015.
x6Nd5 TIL that Ferrari's iconic red color, 'Rosso Corsa', was originally mandated by racing regulations. In the early days of motorsport, international racing organizations assigned specific colors to represent different countries, Italy was given red.
mxdmv TIL One language dies every 14 days. There are 7,000 languages among 7 billion humans. Within the next century, nearly half of all languages are estimated to go extinct.
69oW TIL Mentos ran an ad campaign in Singapore urging citizens to have sex on the night of their nation’s independence day to help boost the country’s low birth-rate.