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TIL a kidney can be purchased for $650 in Kenya and sold for $200,000 in South Africa.

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b70 TIL the crew of the Mayflower II cast a message in a bottle overboard in 1957 that was signed by all of them, including Felix the kitten, with promise of reward. No one knew the whereabouts of the message until it was found at a flea market earlier this year.
mx9PP TIL: it’s so common and customary to have American style tacos on Fridays in Norway, they have a name for it: Fredagstacos
looQA TIL the original RoboCop received an X rating from the Motion Picture Association for extreme violence. The movie was recut and resubmitted 11 more times before it was granted an R rating.
5VPJP TIL Simpsons writer Brent Forrester went to Lollapalooza as research for the episode Homerpalooza. He had a horrible experience which inspired several jokes for the episode: cameras being siezed and thrown in the trash, a freak show, and at one point a stranger asked him, "How's it going, narc?"
GYBm1 TIL that the irrational fear of palindromes (words or sentences that read the same backwards, i.e. Racecar) is known as Aibohphobia. Ironically, Aibohphobia itself is a palindrome as well.