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TIL that shill bidding in most auctions IS legal and specifically protected by law.

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VM44p TIL that the RMS Titanic was designed to carry 68 lifeboats (enough for everyone on board), and although she only had around half as many needed on her maiden voyage, it would have only costed $16k to add the remaining needed; a small fraction of the $7.5m it took to construct the ship.
e07y6 TIL that some 9th century Scottish nuns literally cut off their noses and upper lips in order to make themselves too grotesque for invading Viking pirates to plunder (rape) them.
m1JPo TIL that in a 2014 poll, U.S. southerners were evenly split on whether Kentucky was a southern state.
Nb TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to be in the Expendables while at the hairdresser… and he did it for free.
LDWZ TIL a quasar group called LQG is the largest known structure in the Universe. The group is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross it