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TIL there is a site very much like eBay, except you buy and sell souls.

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grwLL TIL that the subcontinent of India once moved over the surface of the Earth twice as fast as any other landmass
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xVkmk TIL the story of FedEx's founder, Frederick Smith, submitting his business plan as a term paper and receiving a failing grade with an admonition that it would never work, is a myth. He dimly remembers he got about a C, mostly because "it wasn't a well-thought-out paper."
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