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TIL Popular hotels in New Orleans put grease on balcony support poles during Mardi Gras so drunks can’t climb in.

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RVM8 TIL In 1906 the Bronx Zoo, NYC put an African Man on display in the Monkey house…
e0XeD TIL about the 1969 book "Naked Came the Stranger", a literary hoax - the book was written to be disjointed and terrible, but full of sex scenes, to prove that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The novel spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List.
yQkLe TIL that The Adventures of Tintin was originally created as propaganda for the youth wing of a far-right, Catholic Belgian newspaper. However, it soon grew far more popular than the paper itself.
YpxEv TIL that in the 1920's newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told, as a joke, to develop a frosted lightbulb. The experienced engineers believed this to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment not realizing it was a joke and succeeded.
4XnQw TIL that even in a worst-case scenario, Rubix cubes are no more than 20 moves from being solved