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TIL that an original copy of the Declaration of Independence was bought at a Tennessee thrift store for just $2.48 along with a candelabra and a set of salt and pepper shakers. It was then sold to a Utah firm for $477,650, nearly 200,000 times the original price.

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X0AoR TIL that the 2010 FIFA world cup song "Waka Waka" by Shakira is actually based on a 1986 song "Zangaléwa", by Cameroonian band Golden Sounds, which was a hit not only across Africa but also in Colombia with the help of West African DJs where Shakira heard the tune when she was a child.
9YOa6 TIL that for the 1952 British Columbia election the Liberal/Conservative coalition introduced a ranked choice voting system with the hopes of keeping the surging Co-operative Commonwealth Federation out of power...it backfired and instead gave a majority to the fledgling Social Credit Party instead
b9Q57 TIL that "red pandas" are actually composed of two distinct species, the chinese and himalayan ones. The chinese are basically more red, and have darker tail raings.
xVpQk TIL: of Josephine Myrtle Corbin she was born with four legs and two sets of genitals. She could move all 4 but only walk with 2. She had 2 functioning sets of reproductive organs and was able to successfully carry three pregnancies on the right side and the other two on the left.
b6YoQ TIL nutmeg and mace come from the same fruit of the same tree