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TIL that during their liquidation in the early 2000’s, pets.com sold the rights to their famous sock-puppet mascot for $125,000 to an auto loan firm called Bar None. They proceeded to make adverts featuring the puppet, giving it the slogan, “Everybody deserves a second chance.”

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erED TIL Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear) published his bank and acct # in his newspaper column, claiming “worst-case scenario, someone would be able to pay money into my account.” Within a few days, someone set up a direct debit for £500 in favor of a charity, which didn’t require any identification.
QJlpE TIL that the desk in the Oval Office is called the Resolute Desk, named after the ship it was built out of in 1880. The HMS Resolute was found empty and adrift in packice, then salvaged by the US and gifted back to the UK, which helped narrowly avoid a war. FDR would add the front to hide his polio.
8N7G TIL a CIA plane crash-landed over Yucatan in Mexico with four tons of cocaine on board. Yes. Four tons.
OdV4 TIL that Oaksterdam University is an internationally recognized college that trains students for the cannabis industry, with a mission to “legitimize the business and change the law to make cannabis legal”
jWjv TIL that President Andrew Jackson once had a block of cheddar cheese delivered to the white house that was four feet in diameter and two feet thick, weighed nearly 1400 pounds. He invited 10,000 visitors to the White House to eat it and it was gone within two hours.