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TIL that Cards Against Humanity joked about how they could have bought a small private island with the money they donated to charity. So in 2014 they did, renaming it “Hawaii 2”

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QPLL TIL Raisin prices are controlled by a cartel that is exempt from antitrust laws.
oNEr TIL traditional Samoans valued a bride’s virginity so much, the chief would break her hymen in public so the entire tribe could see his bloody fingers.
j6MoN Today I learned bowhead whales can live over 200 years, and ancient stone points have been discovered underneath their skin from failed hunting attempts in prior centuries.
YBZW TIL Fred Smith received a C on his Yale business school paper which essentially outlined the business plan for what later became FedEx.
xVpb5 TIL that the first person killed by an automobile was Bridget Driscoll (UK), who received fatal injuries when she walked into the path of a car moving at 4 mph (6.4 km/h), as it was giving demonstration rides in the grounds of Crystal Palace, London, UK on 17 August 1896.