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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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1OaP TIL that Nazi Germany had a research programme (Wunderwaffe) that included a stealth bomber, night vision, a 1,500 ton super tank, submarine aircraft carrier, an x-ray gun, and a satellite with a concave mirror to “make an ocean boil or burn a city”.
A4N4 TIL The town of Dull in Scotland has been twinned with the town of Boring, Oregon since 2012. In 2013 the town of Bland, Australia joined them in what has become known as the ‘Trinity of Tedium’.
ep6A5 TIL about the world’s most venomous plant. It can be painful and stingy for as long as 9 months!
b9lv4 TIL AriZona iced tea has never wavered from the 99-cent price point introduced shortly after the drink debuted in 1992. It’s even printed on the label as a way of warding off sugar-water price gouging by retailers.
xVb0k TIL that in social psychology, pluralistic ignorance is a situation in which a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but go along with it because they assume, incorrectly, that most others accept it. "No one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes"