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WkoL TIL that in 1946, the United States of America tried to buy Greenland from the Danish for $100,000,000.
6EWP8 TIL Zebra stripes are actually white, not black. It was thought previously that zebras were white animals with black stripes since some zebras have white underbellies. Embryological evidence, however, shows that the animal's background color is black and the white stripes and bellies are additions.
5Yonr TIL 'Dwarfs' is the original plural to 'Dwarf', and 'Dwarves' was popularised by J.R.R Toklien
W7w7d TIL in 1967, Australia's prime minister vanished by swimming in the ocean and never coming back. Australians fondly named a swimming pool in his honour.
BrvEK TIL that in 1990, unemployed nuclear physicist André Gardes tried to invade the island of Sark (a feudal system until 2008) on his own. Sark's only policeman complimented his gun, Gardes showed it off to him and the policeman took it and imprisoned him for 7 days. Gardes tried again a year later.