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TIL there’s an Australian street artist named “Wanksy” who draws large penises on potholes in order to convince the city council to fix them.

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7eB7 TIL The town of Tikrit in Iraq erected a monument of the shoe thrown at Geroge W Bush.
9YpxM TIL that toward the end of his career, acclaimed film director Sam Peckinpah, whose work includes The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, and Straw Dogs, was so desperate for money as a result of his drug habit that he agreed to direct a movie based on the 1975 trucker novelty song "Convoy."
b6vMp TIL: Kleenex was invented as a cotton substitute for use by doctors during WWI
worP6 TIL that in the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and reduce its acidity – by leaving a cocoa mass mixer running overnight.
GAVMJ TIL Apples are harvested only once a year in the United States, from August to November. If you are eating an apple in the winter, spring, or summer, and that apple came from the supermarket, it was picked the previous fall—as long as 10 months ago, if it’s July 1.