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TIL In 2016 Cards Against Humanity raises $100,000 to dig 'tremendous hole'

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MD5K TIL, in 1999, a Florida man auctioned his kidney on Ebay. The post read “You can choose either kidney. Buyer pays all transplant and medical costs. Of course only one for sale, as I need the other one to live. Serious bids only.” The bids reached $5.7 million before the company abruptly ended it.
ANApw TIL some dogs eat their own poop to destroy the evidence because they’re worried about being punished.
k7k5 TIL that Indian government sets up a polling booth in a forest full of lions for a single voter.
MQGK TIL there is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
gMePD TIL saving data to an SSD, RAM, flash memory, etc. increases its weight by an extremely small amount. One calculation states that 1GB of flash memory completely filled with 1s weighs something like 729 femtograms more than the same memory filled with zeros.