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TIL Joe Rogan was the host of Fear Factor
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TIL that the second most expensive photograph ever sold was Edward Steichen’s “The Flatiron” for $11.8 million USD
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TIL How indigenous people shaped Australia’s curious geography of plants
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TIL that the morse code symbol for the letter V, dit-dit-dit-dah, is the same as the famous motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which can be represented by the Roman Numeral V.
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TIL that in the 1650s Anthony Johnson, an African man, won a court case that let him keep another African, John Casor, as his slave instead of ending his indentured servitude. This meant that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America was an African man.
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TIL of the WASP Injector Knife, which once inside the victim, expels 850 psi of CO2 creating a basketball sized air pocket, freezing surrounding internals