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TIL that the Wall Street "Charging Bull" sculpture was for sale from 1993 to at least 2008. The artist was trying to recover the $360,000 it cost him to cast the piece. He only received one major offer: a Las Vegas hotel bid $300k but he declined and insisted that it remain in its current location.

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