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TIL NASA accidentally auctioned off for just $995 a bag that was used by Apollo 11 astronauts to collect the first lunar sample. When the buyer sent the bag to NASA for verification, the space agency realized its mistake and refused to return it.

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ADjw4 TIL of Kinscem, a Hungarian Thoroughbred mare, who won all of her 54 races in the late 1800s. She remains the winningest Thoroughbred racehorse of all time.
jbBQ TIL: In 1959, a rhinoceros named Cacareco was elected to city council in Sao Paolo. Not only did she win, but she did so by a landslide
AojB TIL that the average Bugatti customer owns about 84 cars, 3 jets and one yacht
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