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TIL At the height of the Japanese Real Estate bubble in 1989, Tokyo, on paper, was worth twice the value of the whole United States

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5kDQ TIL when Salvador Dali was recently exhumed to determine whether a fortune teller is his biological daughter, his moustache was still perfectly intact.
9YnaM TIL that in 1950, Venezuela had the fourth-highest GDP per capita in the world. They had a higher GDP per capita than Canada.
nnGG TIL a person who takes a sexually explicit photo of someone under age 18, even if it’s a self-portrait, can be charged with producing child pornography, a felony with a prison sentence of up to 20 years
VMYP0 TIL George Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the Directors’ Guild because they insisted on a traditional credit sequence for A New Hope and he wanted to start it with the now-iconic opening crawl.
0dr9M TIL a New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite; his wife said it was too expensive and sent him back to return it, because it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. He then decided to buy 2 lottery tickets with the cash refunded from the OJ; he won $315.3 million.