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TIL Nicolas Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day he met her. Arquette thought it was strange but played along by creating a list of things to fulfill to win her. As he worked through the list, she got scared and avoided him. Strangely, they met again years later and eventually married.

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6a0J TIL Frank Zappa performed at a Casino in Switzerland when a flare set off by an audience member started a fire that burned down the casino.The event is immortalized in Deep Purple’s song “Smoke on the Water”
odO7 TIL that, in 1948, a psychologist gave a group of his students a test that he said could summarise their personalities. Upon receiving their summaries one week later, the students gave them an average accuracy score of 85.2%. In reality, the students had all received the exact same summary.
8ak9P TIL about Wu Lien-Teh, “The Plague Fighter,” a doctor who developed thicker, more substantial masks to be used against the pneumonic plague in Manchuria during 1910-1911. Dr. Wu identified the bacteria as airborne, and successfully contained the plague; the epidemic ended after 7 months.
m1dVp TIL that horizontal collaboration—French women sleeping with German occupiers—was a major contributor to young men joining the French Resistance
a8rMA TIL: Bananas, avocados, tomatoes, and eggplants are berries, but strawberries aren't. In botanical terms, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower with seeds embedded in its flesh. A strawberry is a "multiple fruit" with many tiny fruits embedded within.