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TIL the most expensive first class tickets on the Titanic were $4350 (or £870) in 1912 money. That's over $100,000 today.

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l7GQ7 TIL "A True Story", the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare, begins with an explanation that the story is not at all "true" and ends with a lie that their future adventures will be described in the upcoming sequels.
R5xpQ TIL in the mid-1800s, a snail spent nearly four years glued to a specimen card in the British Museum before scientists realized it was still alive.
VMDOm TIL that Vinegar Valentines Were Mean-Spirited and Insulting Cards That Came to Popularity in the Victorian Era For Sending to An Unwanted Suitor or Someone You Didn't Like
7yGO TIL that a 21-year old Sacramento college student boarded the wrong plane in Los Angeles and found himself en route to Aukland, New Zealand instead of Oakland, CA. The accents of the airline staff resulted in the word “Aukland” being pronounced as “Oakland” which confused the flyer.
nelQY TIL blues singer Blind Willie Johnson was arrested for singing “If I Had My Way I’d Tear The Building Down," a song about Samson, outside of a custom house when a passing police officer thought the gravelly voice Johnson was inciting a riot to destroy the custom house