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TIL Anthropologie sells rocks with handles for $3,000

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YpxkP TIL George Washington, the son of a black slave, founded the town of Centralia in Washington state. Washington helped fellow residents in many ways, including selling property for little money down, offering loans at no interest, and providing work when no other was available
78kaO TIL the first episode of X-Files spinoff "The Lone Gunmen" was about a US government plot to hijack an airliner and fly it into the World Trade Center to start a profit-making war. It was put on air on March 4, 2001.
OoED6 TIL Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot let his kids fly the plane, who unknowingly disengaged the autopilot function. The crash killed everyone on board.
wbPE TIL that “Expecto Patronum” roughly translates to “I await a protector” in Latin
yVBde TIL that the children’s choir in “Another Brick in the Wall” was paid with a concert ticket, an album, and a single; their school received £1,000. Only 25 years later, after the copyright law changed and the choir members were tracked down, did they receive royalties.