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TIL in 1989, after buying a painting for $4, the new owner discovered a first print of the 1776 Declaration of Independence hidden in the frame. He sold it for $2.4 million

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VMDYB TIL during the Vietnam War, the 1st Infantry Division captured a vital road by sending the division band to march and play music on it. The North Vietnamese troops holding the area thought the music meant a major assault was on the way and fled.
9Y4Q7 TIL about the ghost village Epecuén (Argentina) and it's sole inhabitant, Pablo Novak. The once touristic town became uninhabitable after a flood slowly consumed it in 1985. The waters began to recede in 2009 and Novak (now 90 years old) returned to the home of his youth to live alone with his dogs.
YL5A TIL a man was so enraged by spam, that he quit his job to study law and now makes a living filing lawsuits against spammers.
mv9E TIL ‘affirmative action’ in the US is known as 'positive discrimination’ in the UK.
dnN7 TIL the sound of Krakatoa erupting was so loud that it circled the Earth FOUR times.