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TIL The CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Artists and Had a Secret Abstract Art Collection

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xXPw TIL that a way to determine if a person is interested in you (can be sexual or nonsexual) is to check if their pupils are dilated when talking to him/her.
VM5E8 TIL of Hypatia. She was a world-renowned female mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of the 4th-century who was literally torn apart by oyster shells and set on fire by a mob of Christain zealots.
XJAj TIL Melinda French initially was put off when Bill Gates requested a date he set for a couple weeks in the future. She then realized he was so busy with meetings, he had to schedule a date accordingly. She then agreed. They were married 6 years later.
JYWBm TIL that Danny Boyle relied mostly on the honesty of his volunteer cast to "save the surprise" of the London 2012 opening ceremony
GLOQ TIL Salvador Dalí avoided paying restaurant tabs by drawing on his checks, assuming that they would not want to cash in such valuable art pieces. He was usually right.