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TIL that Einstein’s brain was stolen and at one point was chopped into pieces and stored in a cider box under the thief’s beer cooler.

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6ELQ7 TIL Orson Welles, out of work and in need of money in the late 70's resorted to appearing in and even directing tv ads for various products. In recent years a backstage video has resurfaced of a drunk Welles filming an ad for Paul Masson wines
780Wb TIL there are 'e-books' for the blind/visually impaired. The braille terminal is an electro-mechanical device that displays braille characters, usually by means of round-tipped pins raised through holes in a flat surface
8al6X TIL National Lampoon magazine had a front cover featuring a dog with a gun to its head, saying “if you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog”. Three years later, somebody tracked the dog down and killed it. The dog was named Cheeseface.
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YlRZ Til that a gorrilla’s erection is just over one inch long, and that humans are the most endowed of all primates.