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TIL that Underwater Forest off Alabama Coast Uncovered by Katrina is 50,000 Years Old

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m1YNM TIL that in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" based on inflation in 1862, the $200,000 prize that all the major characters were looking for is equivalent to nearly 5 million dollars today.
dDmd9 TIL that in 1986 a fan in the upper deck at Yankee Stadium threw a knife that grazed Angels first-basemen Wally Joyner.
R5dJ1 TIL In 1462, the Genoese lord of the island of Lesbos surrendered to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conquerer on the condition that his men's heads be spared. The Sultan agreed and had them cut in half instead.
ANbln TIL a movie was banned in China for 2 decades because it featured serial killer and his dog, which he fed victim's remains to.
oBZxr TIL Michael Jackson’s Thriller went platinum not once, not twice, but thirty-three times