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TIL the highest paid agate ever, sold for $13,500 [warning paywall]

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PYkeO TIL The inaugural winner of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, William Grover-Williams, was a French secret agent responsible for organizing a resistance network who was executed by the Nazis.
AvAo TIL: The CIA is supposed to release the JFK assassination records to the public no later than 10/26/2017
rRYwx TIL there is a living person still collecting a pension for Civil War service, though the war ended over 150 years ago.
EWWx TIL in 1993 the Japanese religious cult Aum Shinrikyo released aerosolized Anthrax in a city near Tokyo over the course of 2 days. It should’ve killed thousands, however, they used a strain of Anthrax used for cattle vaccinations and inadvertently could’ve immunized everyone instead.
E7Dx TIL If one of your grandparents are Irish, you could claim Irish citizenship no matter where you live or born without knowing anything about Ireland.