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TIL: The most valuable vinyl record of all time is not a rare recording, it’s a plain, off the shelf, version of Double Fantasy by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It’s worth half a million dollars because John Lennon signed the cover for Mark David Chapman 5 hours before Chapman murdered Lennon.

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7Jwx TIL when John Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to steal Apple II computers. Carmack concocted a sticky substance of Thermite mixed with Vaseline that melted through the windows. However, an accomplice set off an alarm & alerted police. Carmack was then sentenced to a year in a juvenile home.
oR90o TIL A sturgeon's sex can't be reliably determined until 5 years of age, which leaves caviar farms with the significant expense of inadvertently raising males.
n15W TIL according to Worker’s Comp, the average maximum compensation for an arm in the US is $169,878. For a leg, it’s $153,221. So if something costs “an arm and a leg,” it comes to a total of $323,099.
ANbDw TIL: In 1899, "hot mess" first appeared in print to describe something in extreme confusion or disorder. Complaining that people believed everything they read in newspapers, the Journal of the International Association of Machinists declared, "the public is a hot mess."
DQDZP TIL about Frank Hart, a 19th century African American pedestrian (6 day endurance walking events popular at the time). He was a famous and popular athlete, held a world record, and was the first Black athelete on a sports (trading/tobacco) card.