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TIL that when contestants win a car on The Price is Right, they don’t actually get the car on stage. Instead they get a certificate to take to a local dealership, where they pay sales tax

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LQ0dd TIL There is no significant evidence to support drinking 8 glasses of water a day
v1ndj TIL When a snake in the Tokyo Zoo was given a live hamster (as a meal), they two became “best friends.”
JYmlv TIL Murray Rothbard believed that parental rights to children should be traded as consumer goods, suggesting the creation of a "flourishing free market in children".
Mew17 TIL Producer George "Shadow" Morton wrote the song "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" in his car in one night, only to prove to fellow producer Jeff Barry that he was indeed a "song-writer". The song, played by The Shangri-Las, went on to become #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100
gOdy TIL that Sky White of the band Foxy Shazam purchased an abandoned church and began renovating it. The band now uses it for videos and titled their latest album The Church of Rock and Roll.