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TIL A lady in Chiba Japan bought a building, sight unseen, that ended up being a fully stocked 90s arcade.

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lXaB TIL that if a person was able to provide proof that they slept with Tim Tebow, they would be given one million dollars
Ypb4d TIL Two 25m, 15,000 year old Mexican mammoth traps contained the bones of at least 14 mammoths, each of which had their left shoulder removed. We don’t know why.
6EME7 TIL Ireland is the only Western European democracy to have signed a condolence book and visit the German ambassador following Hitler's death in 1945
5VeOp TIL that the [former] most remote tree in the world (the only structure in 250 miles), was hit and killed by a drunk driver in 1973. Now, the world's [newest] loneliest tree lives on Campbell Island, NZ, where it has lived in isolation for over 100 years.
rKW1 TIL that in the 1960s there was an attempt to let humans travel via pneumatic tube (the Jetsons, Futurama, items sent in old timey office buildings) and was estimated to allow travel at 388 mph. It was scrapped due to cost.