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TIL that someone became an actual millionaire by selling virtual real estate in the game ‘Second Life’

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xAGb TIL if your property is foreclosed in Spain, you will have to work for the bank to pay off your loan.
bXN7 TIL that Medina, the second-holiest city in Islam (which forbids non-Muslims from entering the core of the city), was primarily inhabited by Jews before the arrival of Mohammad.
VMJeG TIL that the heist in Die Hard with a Vengance was so plausible that the FBI questioned the screenwriter leading to the Federal Reserve changing their security protocal.
VWwQ TIL if people worship other gods, the Bible says you must not only kill those people, but kill everyone else in the town, and their animals, then take all of the town’s possessions to the middle of the public square, then burn all of the possessions, then burn the whole town down, and never rebuild.
dQVj TIL of James Price, a British alchemist who commited suicide when asked to demonstrate his transmutation skills in public