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TIL in 2021 an antiques enthusiast bought "an exceptionally rare" 15th century porcelain bowl made in China for $35 from a Connecticut yard sale. The small white bowl "adorned with cobalt blue paintings of flowers" turned out to be one of only 7 such bowls known to exist & sold for nearly $722,000.

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kJlXB TIL In the study of nonverbal communications, the limbic brain is where everything happens. It's the part of our brain that reacts instinctively and immediately to the world around us, without needing to stop and think
Np7P TIL: Thomas Jefferson invented his “wheel cypher” in the 1790s and a deceptively innovative little device it is. In fact, this machine was so far ahead of its time, it was still in active use in the US military 150 years later at the beginning of WW2.
DQBaj TIL that Alan Hale Jr. Was only 43 when he started playing "The Skipper" on Gilligan's Island.
kOVle TIL about Stage Coach Mary - 63 year old, gunslinging, booze drinking, cigar smoking, fist fighting freed slave - and first black woman is U.S. history to deliver the mail.
v1gDD TIL about 20% of the people with absolute pitch also have synesthesia