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TIL that Monica’s apartment from “Friends” is estimated to cost $3,500,000

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KO9NG TIL In 1955, Burma-Shave ran a promotion for a free trip to Mars if someone sent in 900 empty bottles of their product. It was intended to be a joke, but when a man from Wisconsin duly sent in 900 bottles, they scrambled to honour the promotion; sending him to Moers, Germany.
n1EB TIL that the lead singer of Bow Wow Wow recorded multiple albums, toured the world, posed nude on an album cover, and was kicked out of the band …all before she turned 17
VMRXG TIL in 1967, when the first black mayor of Washington D.C. sent his first budget to the House Committee on District of Columbia, chairman John L. McMillan of South Carolina responded by sending back a truck full of watermelons.
VMpyD TIL of the Hedonic Treadmill: after tragedy or good fortune, you will adapt toward okay-ness.
mxKkM TIL about auto-antonyms, which are words that can have 2 different meanings that are the opposite of each other. (For example, the word bolt, which can mean "to secure together" or "to flee")