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TIL The United States attempted to buy Greenland in 1946 for $100,000,000 ($1.3 billion today).

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aw6RN TIL the actual yeti may just be the extremely rare Tibetan blue bear. It is one of the rarest subspecies of bear in the world, it is only known to exist through a small number of fur and bone samples.
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