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TIL In 2017, Tracy Donahue bought a picture for $4 from a thrift store, discovered it was by renowned artist N.C. Wyeth, and sold it for over $100,000.

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kOkM4 TIL a Magnetar Starquake occured on Dec.27, 2004 that would have probably registered Mag.23 on the Richter scale, blinding satellites and ionizing Earth's upper atmosphere. Coincidentally a day earlier, Dec. 26, saw the worst tsunami in modern history
AD84a TIL That 0.4 percent of Iceland is covered by Alaskan Lupine, an invasive species brought in 1945 as ground-cover in a bid to ‘revegetate’ the country
R77Ol Vaccination is underway for the 2017-2018 seasonal flu, and next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed roughly 40 million people.
p856e TIL t-shirts developed from workers cutting jumpsuits in half to stay cool, they were originally marketed as "bachelor undershirts", and F Scott Fitzgerald was the first person to use t-shirt in writing.
7ORL TIL Hugh Jackman was supposed to have a brief cameo as Wolverine in SPIDER-MAN (2002). Jackman actually showed up in New York to film the scene, but the entire plan was scrapped when the crew couldn’t get access to the Wolverine costume from X-Men.