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TIL in 1997 William Shatner agreed to become the spokesman for Priceline in exchange for some stock in the young company. This has earned him approximately $600 million as the stock soared.

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aXy9 TIL that Lord Collingwood, Nelson’s second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, would carry a pocket full of acorns on walks in the countryside, planting them as he went so the ‘Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.’
5V0LQ TIL 24 year old George Jetson knocked up Jane when she was 16 or 17.
LaLP TIL: Italians called it the French disease, the French called it the Italian disease, today we call it syphilis–and Columbus brought it to Europe from the New World.
oBOV7 TIL in 2016, a 14-year-old male masturbated with an entire 60-gram tube of BENGAY® and got salicylate poisoning as the product contains methylsalicylate (which is broken down to salicylic acid in the body) and scrotal skin can absorb certain substances up to 40 times better than other skin regions
aNBN TIL that there exists a planet between Mars and Jupiter known as Ceres. It’s a dwarf planet, like Pluto, and may contain water and an atmosphere.