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TIL Mozart had a “startling fondness” for poop jokes, which is preserved in his surviving letters.

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69WJm TIL about second-price actions. Unlike normal auctions, players don't know what other people bid but the winner pays the price of the second-highest bidder. Microeconomics says that players will reveal their true price from the start instead of trying to manipulate the price like normal auctions
65r8 TIL Kid Rock took a pay cut that cost him around $50,000 to $100,000 per night during his tour to keep ticket prices at $20 and a 12 oz beer at $4.
6EbJQ TIL Although there is no drug proven to make someone tell the truth some countries, even today, use truth serums
gMX4y TIL during the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya an ex SAS member and former Irish soldier joined forces to rescue victims of the shooting, organised police to attempt a counter attack and evaded gunfire while rescuing people still trapped in the mall
ADY8w TIL Winona Ryder was beat up as a child by bullies for looking like a feminine boy and was then kicked out of the school instead of the bullies. She ran into one bully years later and the bully asked for her autograph, to which she gloriously denied.