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TIL Groot is also known by: “His Divine Majesty King Groot the 23rd, Monarch of Planet X, custodian of the branch worlds, ruler of all the shades”

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KvWQ TIL in 2005, a student in England made a 1 million pixel webpage and put up the space for sale at $1 per pixel. He did this in order to pay for college and he was successful, selling out in less than 6 months.
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DQMdr TIL that Oxford University held a grudge against a man for around 550 years, requiring students to swear an oath to never reconcile with him. They stopped because the university forgot who he was or what he did.
4XwQg TIL that in 1964, Elvis Presley bought President Franklin D Roosevelt's yacht, USS Potomac (AG-25) for $55,000. He later gave it to St Jude's Children Hospital for a fundraiser, and that hospital sold it for $65,000.
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