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mYZO TIL The town of Buford, Wyoming was sold on eBay for $900,000.
4XKG5 TIL: Every Banana sold in the UK is a clone of the banana grown at the famous Staffordshire theme park 'Alton Towers'
kORZe TIL in 1991 a youth group in Denmark wrote to Gorbachev of Russia to ask for a free submarine. He said yes, and 3 years later they received a massive 76 meter (250 ft) submarine.
yQm6p TIL that Eli Whitney's creation of the cotton gin gave the South enough economic power to be able to start the Civil War and his creation of interchangeable parts for rifles gave the North the manufacturing power to win the Civil War
EGw TIL the world’s largest primates stood 10 feet tall and may have coexisted with humans before going extinct