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TIL The US Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million.

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WkLE9 TIL in the 1907 Sydney Bathing Suit Protests thousands of men poured onto Sydney's beaches wearing wearing "their sisters' or grandmothers' underwear, ballet frills, curtains or tablecloths" To protest an increase in clothing regulations.
epWn TIL NorCal students are petitioning to add the prefix “Hella” as the highest SI measurement (i.e. The sun weighs 2.2 hellatons)
KOgjQ TIL that a legal fight between the heirs of John Steinbeck prevented Steven Spielberg from directing a re-make of "The Grapes of Wrath" starring Daniel Day-Lewis
YGJv TIL NASA engineers asked Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, if 100 tampons was the right number for her 7-day trip to space.
JYy5l TIL that the song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from The Lion King, was originally meant to have been sung by Timon and Pumbaa. This idea was scrapped after Elton John himself intervened, saying “I don't want a big, stinky warthog singing my love song!".