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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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x67B1 TIL: That the inventor of the Airplane and the Inventor of Cheez-Its lived across the street from each other. We were touring Orville Wright's home and learned that their neighbor across the street was Weston Green, who invented Cheez-Its.
M7Nm0 TIL Plants aren't silent. They make clicking sounds like popcorn inaudible to humans that change under stress
KOP04 TIL That Paul Stanley of the band Kiss was unable to hear on the right side due to a birth defect. As a kid he found it difficult to determine the direction of a sound, and he could not understand speech in a noisy environment. He was taunted by other children for his deformed ear.
mxKNE TIL countries have credit ratings. Obtaining a good sovereign credit rating is usually essential for developing countries that want access to funding in international bond markets.
kOjvW TIL the famous "Florence Y'all" water tower in Florence, KY, originally read "Florence Mall." However, since the Florence Mall hadn't been built yet, the Highway Bureau declared the advertisement unlawful. Instead of repainting the entire tower, they simply repainted one letter on the cheap