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TIL There were ads in the back of 60's and 70's comic books that allowed kids to order a live monkey through the mail.

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Bg6pr TIL that there is a single group of indigenous people, the Yupik, who lived in both the Americas and Eurasia (Russia) prior to European discovery of the new world.
mxNRR TIL in 2005, Facebook approached artist David Choe him with a proposition, Facebook asked Choe to paint his famous murals on the office walls for $60,000 or company stock. Choe choice the stock and it's now estimated worth is $200,000,000
06bM TIL in 2007 CBS released a CSI toy which included a fingerprint dusting powder that contained up to 5% asbestos. Finally, 20 months after an asbestos victims’ organization made this fact public a recall was carried out.
PYwGe TIL Someone in the distant past took a poop in a cave, and then 14,000 years later scientists in an advanced civilization are now fawning all over that piece of poop, making it perhaps one of the most valuable pieces of poop in history.
epp7L TIL that it was estimated that Canadian country star "Stompin'" Tom Connors smoked up to 100 cigarettes a day. He lived to be 77.