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TIL that back in 1916 you could buy a home through Sears for as little as $600.

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0Y6M TIL museums have more than a half million Native American skeletons in their collections
L5O0 TiL in 2001 in India, red rain fell containing micro organisms which could not be concretely identified as coming from earth.
16AwD TIL- Pistachios are spontaneously combustible.
WkoWL TIL The Nike sneaker based on Freddy Krueger was ordered to be destroyed due to legal issues. The already made pairs were covered in oil and set ablaze , just like Freddy was in the first Nightmare on Elm Street film
ne6QY TIL the US government helped to cover up and granted immunity to a Japanese unit which conducted horrifying and lethal human experiments on 200k-500k Chinese civilians during WW2 in exchange for the medical data they had gathered.