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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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wLr6o TIL A band called The Warlocks were set to play a benefit concert in San Francisco in December 1965, but the problem was that there was already a band called The Warlocks...so they changed their name to The Grateful Dead.
7rDQr TIL that Frida Kahlo grew up during a revolution, and the nationalism that followed would inspire her art.
l7a0a Til that Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered one of his sons to kill himself.
Y70gr TIL of Anna Anderson, an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Despite a private investigation proving she was a Polish factory worker with a history of mental illness, Anna managed to garner support due to disinformation spread by the Bolsheviks about Anastasia's execution.
gM1lW TIL: People like Forrest Gump were real. In the Vietnam War, a program under LBJ, and McNamara swept through the ghettos of America looking for low IQ people to induct into the Armed Forces; in total 354000 people. Termed "McNamara's Morons" they were KIA at 3x the rate of other soldiers