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TIL Anthropologie sells rocks with handles for $3,000

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ne4wd TIL that the Dutch East India Company paid its investors an 18% annual dividend for almost 200 years.
R75ba TIL the inventor of the Pringles can had his ashes buried in one.
VBVDB TIL cats are the number 1 killer of birds in Canada. It's estimated that keeping cats indoors could save 200 million birds each year, and cats have contributed to the extinction of 34 species of birds
9ggp TIL that President Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” for being a man of small words. An example of this is part of a story that says that a matron, seated next to him at a dinner, said to him, “I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.” He replied, “You lose.”
165lP TIL The term "chronic" is used for marijuana because Snoop Dogg misheard his dealer referring to weed as "hydrochronic" when he really said it was "hydroponic"