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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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oB0Vr TIL the world's oldest human-made gold treasure dates back to the period between 4,500 BC and 4,000 BC is found in Varna, Bulgaria.
Qvep TIL That Macdonalds recycles the oil they use to cook as biofuel for (some of) their delivery trucks.
ne0vB TIL - in 1941 people in Northern California and Southwestern Oregon started a push to form a new US State called Jefferson. The counties for a couple weeks would "secede every Thursday," using rifles to interdict drivers on Route 99 and hand them copies of their proclamation of independence.
N7Qeb TIL that in 1955, Quaker Oats gave away free land deeds as part of a cereal promotion. Participants could mail in their cereal box to redeem a plot of land sized 1 inch x 1 inch in a gold-rush region of Canada.
XE1Jk TIL the Honey Possum (of Western Australia) is the only flightless animal in the world to live solely on a diet of nectar and pollen. Honey Possum males have the largest sperm of any mammal in the world (0.14inches), whilst their young are born weighing only 0.005g.