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TIL a man in China sold his kidney to buy an iPhone when he was 17 and is now bedridden for life.

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yV8pa TIL due to the rising popularity of jeans in the 1960s, one Texas legislator tried to have jeans declared the “official state costume” in 1977. His idea was ignored.
4Xyng TIL About Ulrich Horstmann a scholar who Argued humanity should use nuclear weapons in order to bring forth the extinction of the human race.
GYBOg TIL that when cartoonist Tom Batiuk lost the ownership of his comic strip John Darling to his syndicate in 1990, he had the main character murdered with no warning. With the protagonist dead, the syndicate had the rights to an unusable property and the strip ended the next day.
6NKl TIL that “runner’s high” is chemically equivalent to smoking marijuana.
nWjBd TIL A Carthaginian peace is when the losing side is punished to the point it is crippled. The Treaty of Versailles was described by some economists as a Carthaginian peace and there were plans to cripple West Germany after WW2 but the Marshall Plan to rebuild was chosen instead.