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TIL A Barbie with a real pink diamond choker sold for $302,500 in a New York auction

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v1Dy8 TIL There are 11 statues of John A MacDonald, Canada's first prime minister, including at the Prime Ministers Path in Baden, Ontario, a collection of statues of all of Canada’s PMs before Kim Campbell
gMO78 TIL In 2011 A middle aged man got heckled by some teens who he lost a game of COD to, so he found them irl and tried to choke one of them out
epO75 TIL that Charles Darwin conducted excavations at Stonehenge in 1877 to test his hypothesis that earthworm bioturbation is largely responsible for the continual sinking and burial of surface objects across the world.
VMJvm TIL A card addressed to "Ya know yer wan, her mother’s Hogan from Castleblayney, but the daughter’s an ex-townie. Grew up in Athlone and moved to Ballymacward when she got married. Lives next door to her in-laws now. She has a rake a’ childer and 7 dogs and 4 cats and..." was successfully delivered.
j6X4M TIL that blue reflectors on the road mean a fire hydrant is nearby.