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TIL Germany sold 22 Mig-29 to Poland in 2003 for just 22 €.

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70oL TIL that Quaker Oats once fed radioactive Oats to mentally handicapped children to study its effects.
MeN8K TIL in 2005 a barber sold Neil Armstrong's hair, after giving him a haircut, for $3000. Neil Armstrong threatened legal action. Currently his hair is being sold at £399 for each half inch strand.
MejBA TIL why we have a stronger urge to pee when closer to the toilet. From an early age, we're taught to associate the bathroom with peeing. So the closer we get to one, that programming, located deep in the rivers of the subconscious mind, activates the thought and the body acts.
OokY TIL In 1899, President McKinley was assured by the director of the US Patent Office that everything that can be invented has already been invented.
5Vlrr TIL the US army would take dead bodies that were donated by family for the purpose of medical research and instead use them to test the destructiveness of bombs