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TIL that a apartment went untouched in paris for 75 years and was found to contain 2.1 million dollars worth of art as well as a look back into the past.

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MeXXK TIL Michael Jordan’s house has been on the market for four years without a buyer
E1kBx TIL in 2015 a man in Iowa stole a bag of dog poop out of a truck bed when he realized he couldn’t steal the truck. Said bag was valued at a whopping $1.
78bVr TIL The fossilised remains of a T rex and a Triceratops who died fighting eachother, discovered in 2006, remained in private hands and thus unavailable for study unti 2024, partially because of land dispute over whether fossils are minerals or not. A court in Montanta ruled that fossils are minerals
dlDj TIL the then unknown writer Franz Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his works after his death. Brod didn’t, published them and Kafka became world famous posthumously.
b9gWE TIL that when handling old books and rare manuscripts it’s actually better to just have really clean and dry hands rather than wearing gloves or other protective material.