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TIL For $250k you can visit the wreck of the Titanic

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7rQ07 TIL cockroach infestations can be so bad that the house needs to be burned to the ground surrounded by a ring of fire to prevent any of the little demons from escaping.
76dP TIL that while the United States was performing lobotomies in the mid 1900’s, the Soviet Union banned them because they were “Contrary to the principles of humanity.”
yZMV TIL Astronaut Michael Collin’s secret fear was that he had to return to Earth alone, leaving Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stranded on the moon. He sometimes thought it would be better to not have that option.
pYZg8 TIL Juul paid one charter school $134,000 to setup a summer camp. The company had also offered other schools $10,000 to obtain the right to talk to students in the classroom and after school.
8eGOV TIL Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol, Strangers on a Train) once attended a party with 100 pet snails in her handbag, calling them her "companions for the evening"