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TIL slaves in America in 1850 cost the equivalent of ~$40,000. The going rate today is $90.

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xVVP0 TIL Domino's Noid mascot was discontinued because a mentally unstable man with the surname Noid thought that the commercials were a personal attack against him and held up a Domino's Store at gunpoint for 5 hours making several demands. Afterwords the police told reporters that "he's para-Noid."
7eQ7 TIL that the correct response to “top o’ the morning to ya” is “and the rest of the day to yourself”
VMkek TIL that the song 'Africa' by Toto is actually about a boy "trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV or remembers in the past". This explains the apparently inaccurate line about Kilimanjaro rising above the Serengeti.
5V0Rk TIL that John Cabot, 15th century English explorer, was really an Italian named Giovanni Caboto.
a8VY9 TIL Benzodiazepines were originally marketed in the 1960s for the relief of anxiety, stress and insomnia and became very popular with women of the time. The gendered cultural meanings of Valium, a well-known benzodiazepine, was cemented in the 1966 Rolling Stones’ song “Mother’s Little Helper”.