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TIL That Jack Daniels will sell you a barrel of whiskey for about $10,000.

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Q66p TIL that the Osage Indians were once the richest per capita people in the world due to oil reserves on their land. Congress then passed a law requiring court appointed “guardians” to manage their wealth. Over 60 Osage were murdered from 1921-1925, their land rights passed to the guardian.
WB09 TIL in 2004 a 15 year old girl was bit by a bat she picked up. After showing signs of rabies a month later, doctors devised a last ditch experimental treatment that cured her. She is the first known person to have survived after showing rabies symptoms
W7kAL TIL Tokyo has a Poop Museum (うんこミュージアム) Popular with Kids and Teens Because It Has the Feel of an Amusement Park/Game Center
wMkP TIL that the word “Tycoon” is a corruption of the Japanese word 大君 ‎(taikun, “great prince”). Which was the tile for the Shogun of Japan.
BrEXk TIL that a man, Chase Dellwo, survived a Grizzly bear attack by shoving his arm down the bears throat. While being attacked in Great Falls Montana, Dellwo remembered an article his grandmother gave him about bears having bad gag reflexes. He shoved his arm down the Grizzlys throat and it retreated.