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TIL in 2000 an anonymous businessman offered then 18-year-old Britney Spears £7.5M for her virginity. She rejected the offer.

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NWX6 TIL actors and actresses can buy their way to an Oscar. They throw money at advertising, promotions and gifts to academy members, and has proven successful for some that otherwise wouldn’t have won.
BgRoL TIL many of the American Indians Columbus met in the Caribbean were not actually native but were instead Caribs- cannibals that had conquered the islands 200 years before his arrival. Cannibalism was so prolific that the English word itself comes from the Spanish name for Carib people- Caníbal.
1an0X TIL that JRR Tolkien wrote the Lord of The Rings while he was a visiting English professor at the university in Galway, Ireland. It’s widely believed that the nearby Burren region influenced his depiction of Middle Earth and that “Gollum” was named after a cave in the region called “Poll na gColm”
nWoEG TIL - Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children's Home Society which helped make adoption mainstream, but did so by abducting and selling children born to poor and unwed mothers. One of those abducted babies grew up to be Ric Flair.
Mey9m TIL Nazis kidnapped “Aryan-looking” children from across Europe and brought them back to Germany for indoctrination.