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TIL that, based on history, in a real financial meltdown bartering useful items was how people got by and gold was not as useful as most people believe.

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P1LaJ TIL Human penis shaped like a mushroom is to scoop out or displace the prior male’s semen
Eg0Ow TIL in January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg filed eight "quiet title and partition" lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land which they owned on the island of Kauai. This land is contained within the 700 acres of land that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014.
1pd8 TIL because of the “Harlem Shake” hundreds of students have been disciplined, fifteen Aussie miners fired, and there is even an FAA investigation.
pAAO TIL your body paralyzes itself when you sleep to keep you from acting out your dreams. However, it is possible to wake up while still paralyzed; many people who have experienced this claim they felt a malevolent presence nearby.
l761r TIL that there is a music genre called Retrowave, which combines nostalgic synth and modern beats to imitate music from the 80s (but real 80s sounds different)