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TIL Kyle Macdonald bartered his way from one red paperclip to a house in 14 online trades

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DQ8Y TIL Homosexuality has been decriminalized in France since 1791
x6VG5 TIL, a woman mistakenly snorted a line of LSD containing 550 times the usual recreational dose, mistaking it for cocaine. The woman had been suffering from chronic foot pain for 20 years, but found that the massive dose of LSD allowed her to reduce and eventually stop morphine consumption.
4kVVg TIL that mosquitos don't feed on blood as their daily source of food; they actually consume nectar. Female mosquitos only require blood as a source of protein to develop their eggs.
xVBMg TIL because of the commercial failure of anime Ghost Stories’ Japanese airing, the studio allowed ADV Films to make English dubbing with loose set of rules. This resulted in tons of American culture references for the English dub version (sex, politics, races, religion, Mormon,...)
kOb5m TIL the 1964 baseball champion St. Louis Cardinals team photo had to be retaken because in the first attempt, one black player (HoF pitcher Bob Gibson) and one white player (famed broadcaster Bob Uecker) held hands with big goofy smiles.