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TIL that Ringo Starr sells his MS paint art for thousands of dollars

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8vZV TIL That there was a private-sector post office in the 1800s called the American Letter Mail Company, which delivered letters for half the price the USPS charged, and was later shut down because it’s illegal to compete against the USPS.
EYQ7 TIL that Chevy Chase avoided the draft by falsely convincing the draft board that he had homosexual tendencies.
pveb TIL that Neil Armstrong’s NASA application was a week late. If it weren’t for his friend, Dick Day, secretly slipping it into the pile, he would have been rejected.
KdAJ TIL items confiscated by the TSA (including weapons) end up getting sold back to the general public in state-run auctions.
1aomr TIL of Le Pétomane, a French farteur, who could suck water up from a pan into his rectum and project it up to several yards along with playing "La Marseillaise" on an ocarina through a rubber tube in his anus.