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TIL in a Dutch auction, the price is REDUCED until a single bid is made, thus ending the sale.

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6970Z TIL Renault once sold a model called "Le Car"
YwG TIL that at a dinner party, Richard Nixon said, “I could leave this room, and in 25 minutes, 70 million people would be dead.”
AD8nn TIL that the first person to survive going over Niagra Falls in a barrel was a 63 year old woman named Annie Edson Taylor. She was hoping to make enough money from her fame to become financially secure, but never got much, in part because her manager stole her barrel.
75E7 TIL the process of seppuku, suicide by disemboweling to preserve honor, eventually became so ritualized that the abdominal cut was not even needed. The samurai merely reached for a fan instead of a knife, and doing so signaled the merciful beheading strike by the samurai’s assistant.
bBJ7 TIL in the US the death penalty is, on average, 10x more expensive to taxpayers than life imprisonment.