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TIL a priceless Roman marble bust was sold at a Texas Goodwill for $35

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LkVNm TIL everyone with blue eyes is descended from a single ancestor.
xY7b TIL Cats in America have contributed to the extinction of 33 bird species.
xVgbo TIL despite selling over 35 million albums, the Grateful Dead have only had one song on the Billboard top 40: 1987’s “Touch of Grey”
j6dWp TIL There was no hot water supply on board Apollo Lunar module or Command module so all meals were served cold. Astronauts Scott and Irwin all asked for more food to be brought as walking on the Moon required huge reserves of energy and stamina
xkgo TIL that 60% of mid-size motels and hotels in the US are owned by those of Indian-origin, and of those, 1/3 have the last name ‘Patel’; a name used by the educated-merchant class in Gujarat, India which means “landowner”.