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TIL An American writer went to Paris where she found one of her favorite books in a store. Upon opening the book, she saw that the book was her own copy that she gave away years ago.

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vPBd4 TIL that when Dana White and the Fertittas, purchased the UFC from its previous owners in 2001 for $2 million, they received only the brand name and an old octagon, other assets were already sold off including the domain name UFC.com which had been sold to a company named 'User Friendly Computers"
XE5Ak TIL hippopotamus can defecate so much in the water they're in, that fish start to die because the bacteria in the hippo's feces use up the majority of the oxygen contained in the river.
JAvv TIL of le Chevalier d'Eon, a French diplomat that lived alternatively as male or female. There was a betting pool over his real gender (male) that closed only after his autopsy.
68GW TIL that upon his death, pirate Olivier Levasseur had tossed a cryptogram into a crowd and told them if they could figure out the message, his treasure (now valued at $200,000,000) would be theirs, a treasure that to this day has never been found.
p8KPQ TIL that in ancient Rome, wearing pants was considered barbaric as the "civilised" cultures of the Mediterranean didn't need them. As the Empire expanded north, the Romans would be forced to adopt pants, particularly those of Celtic design, lest they freeze their balls.