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TIL Amateur Canadian Scientists discovered a new type of Aurora in 2018 and named it Steve

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beJ0 TIL a human kidney was put up on eBay starting at $25,000 and reached $5,750,100 before being taken down. “Of course only one for sale, as I need the other one to live.”
y0op TIL that during the Berlin Blockade in 1948 a pilot who was doing supply drops for the civilians became known as ‘Uncle Wiggly Wings’ after he started dropping candy and chocolate from his plane and wiggling his wings so people knew it was him.
N7oLJ TIL the oldest known toys in the world are a number of dolls found in a 4,500 years-old child's grave in Siberia
6EOem TIL Bob Barker plans to give all his money to animal causes after his death
QJJ59 Short answer: it depends on how deeply you're sleeping