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TIL that the Postal Service once printed 3 billion stamps featuring the Statue of Liberty, before realizing that the picture was actually of the Las Vegas replica

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loEer TIL that in 2012 a Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao announced to offered $65m to any man able to woo and marry his lesbian daughter Gigi Chao. He later doubled his offer to $130m. After this Gigi said in an open letter that "I think I'll marry a man when he marries a man."
DlYp TIL that India’s richest man is offering free 4G internet service to everyone in the country
X0pNQ TIL of Sweating Sickness. A mysterious illness that has only been recorded in England between 1485 and 1551 and seemed to affect almost exclusively wealthy men in their 30’s and 40’s. Death would usually occur mere hours after the onset of symptoms. It is unknown what it was.
X05jQ TIL that brown rats were domesticated twice. First in Japan starting around 1654 and then a second time completely independently in Europe in the early 1800s.
X07DD TIL The Magna Carta was annulled by Pope Innocent III and reinstated multiple times by different English Kings. While perceived as a constitution the Magna Carta was limited to 25 Barons and the King, and the document has been almost entirely repealed or replaced with new laws over the centuries.