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TIL a man was given an old blanket by his grandmother. He kept it on the back of a chair for years only to find out it is a First Phase Navajo Chief blanket worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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LPer TIL when Charlie Chaplin was a teenager he went to a pub and asked for a glass of water, but got so spooked by the gentleman serving the drink that he fled. It was found several weeks later that the man was a serial killer who gave poisonous water to his new brides and watched them suffer to death.
pGR8 TIL Nicolas Cage owns a nine-foot tall pyramid in New Orleans and plans to be buried there
GXGJ TIL that in 2008, Somali Pirates captured an Iranian cargo vessel whose mysterious contents poisoned and killed 16 of it’s captors. Although the demanded ransom was $2.5 million dollars, the U.S. Government offered $7 million to board and search the ship.
R7b68 TIL the Hippos from Pablo Escobar's private zoo, at Hacienda Napoles, escaped became feral, bred and now terrorise local fisherman in Columbia.
QNRAa TIL that the bus service from London, England to Calcutta, India (now Kolkata) was considered to be the longest bus route in the world. The bus service, which started in 1957, was routed to India via Belgium, Yugoslavia and North Western India.This route is also known as the Hippie Route.