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TIL rock legend Bill Haley moved to Mexico, married a local woman, and started recording in Spanish

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rRyrd TIL In 1964, a Swedish art gallery displayed 4 paintings by unknown artist Pierre Brassau. Every single art critic praised the ‘avant-garde’ work- except one, who said, ‘only an ape could have done this’. In fact it was all a hoax by a journalist and 'Brassau’ was actually a 4-year-old chimpanzee.
nblW TIL That Lennart Green, world champion close-up card magician was disqualified from the 1988 competition when the magician judges thought he must have been using stooges to shuffle the cards. He performed the same trick 3 years later, asking the judges to do the shuffling and won.
e0NXb TIL the Japanese version of "to split hairs" literally translates to "fart-logic."
rRGae TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products that caused up to 10,000 people in the US alone infected to HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the US market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so that they could still make money.
X0MOP TIL Building codes have been around as far back as 2200BC, in the Old Babylonian Empire. Whereby one of several laws dictates.. 'If it [building failure] causes the death of a son of the owner - a son of that builder shall be put to death'.