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TIL Kobe Bryant was paid $14,277.45 for every point he scored this year ($30,453,805/2133 points)

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R5aa9 TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted.
JO8V Today I learned that the price of admission for a zoo in 18th century England was a dog or a cat – they were fed to the lions.
loan5 TIL about the ghost ship Deering. The ship was abandoned by the crew, who took personal belongings, navigational equipment, papers and the ship's anchor. Despite an FBI investigation, no trace of the crew or the ship's logs were ever found. Speculation ranges from a mutiny to Bolshevik pirates.
keZe TIL Cheese has small amounts of morphine in it
wL9ZW TIL Louise and Martine Fokkens, the oldest sex workers in Amsterdam, now retired, are estimated to have pleasured some 355,000 men, which is greater than the population of Iceland