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TIL that $245,000.00 handbags exist

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b61j4 TIL that Michael Jackson's pet, Bubbles the Chimp, is still alive.
woO7Y TIL that listed among the most secure places in the world, alongside Fort Knox and Area 51, is a parking garage in Derby, England.
vPEmx TIL Peter Norman, the white athlete standing on the podium in 1968 while Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the Black Power salute, was not selected to run in the 1972 Olympics for supporting his fellow athletes. He was not welcomed at the 2000 Olympics because he refused to renounce his actions.
DQpBr TIL: They Assyrians, of Assyrian Empire fame, founders of Akkad and Sumer, still exist. They speak one of the oldest continuously spoken and written languages and one of the oldest alphabetically written languages in the world.
g6YD TIL that President Wilson actually VETO'ed the Volstead Act but congress passed it anyway bringing on the beginning of Prohibition.