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TIL Anthropologie sells rocks with handles for $3,000

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NnZP TIL guards at New Mexico State Penitentiary had a “snitch game”. They would label inmates as snitches, let them be abused, and wait for them to turn into informants to escape their tormentors.
wo59W TIL The darkest color in the world doesn't have a name, it has the ability to absorb 99.995% of light and has been used to cover a diamond worth 2 million dollars for an "artistic project"
b97p9 TIL The reason that US money is green is because according to the U.S. Bureau of Printing and Engraving, the ink was plentiful and durable and the color green was associated with stability
R5W8w TIL of Manfred Ramminger, a German architect who stole an American missile for the Soviet Union by walking into a West German air base, hauling the missile out in a wheelbarrow, driving it wrapped in a carpet, and finally disassembling it and shipping it to Moscow through commercial airmail.
JYYZl Short answer: They’re trying!