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TIL that the best selling commemorative US stamp is an Elvis stamp

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oBEMo TIL that in 408BC an actor named Hegelochus mispronounced a word and, instead of saying "after the storm I see again a calm sea," accidentally said "after the storm I see again a weasel." This mistake was so mocked by other Ancient Greeks that over two millennia later we still know his name.
GbXJ TIL: Man Stopped Growing At Six Months Old Is Now 21 And Only 23 Inches Tall
QJlda TIL Southern California Edison plans to bury 3.6 million pounds of lethal radioactive waste at the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant, about 100 feet from the ocean and just a few feet above the water table.
ejNb TIL palaeontologists found components of red blood cells in a 46-million-year-old fossilised mosquito
d8vN8 TIL two businessmen in Québec bet $517,000 on a best-of-three game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The loser had to sign a notarized recognition of the debt contract, secured with a mortgage over the loser’s house.