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TIL in the US in 1952 you could buy a Native American child for $10

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wLR8M TIL there is gold in our brains and throughout our nervous systems, and without it, human beings might not exist. The gold in the human body, less than the weight of a single eyelash, is critical for rapid electrical signaling and brain function.
9YZd6 TIL A Czech nuclear power plant held a bikini contest to choose new interns, sidestepping the normal way of vetting candidates by going off of their knowledge of nuclear physics.
QNyxL TIL the "tank" was named by the British military during WWI to make the enemy think they were developing a kind of water carrier instead of a secret new weapon.
grvLW TIL Oliver Smoot, whose body was used to measure Boston's Harvard Bridge as part of an MIT fraternity prank in 1958, went on to become the chairman of the American National Standards Institute and the president of the International Organization for Standardization.
LwO0 TIL: After Chimps learn the sign language for “funny”, they will say “funny” after throwing poop at people.