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TIL more money was spent buying Central Park’s land than all of Alaska

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xDjk TIL New Zealand has the highest rate of vibrator ownership: 38%.
GAvgE TIL 1/3 of US ambassadors are untrained in diplomacy, and have simply bought their way into a prestigious post, as big donors.
Ang4 TIL that famous American Sharpshooter Annie Oakley sued 55 newspapers (and won 54 out of 55) after they falsely reported she was a thief and drug addict.
9ORM TIL On Valentines day Roman priests use to kill goats and take their skin, soak them in blood and go around streets slapping women and crops with them in order to make them fertile for the year
dmjE TIL that 1 in 4 11 year olds in London are functionally illiterate, either unable to read or write properly