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TIL: The Hope Diamond was mailed through the United States Postal Service costing only $2 and $150 to insure.

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9wN1D TIL of the cockeyed squid - a species with one normal eye for looking up and one giant swollen eye for looking down.
XloD TIL that Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball avoided using ethnic jokes, as well as humour based on physical handicaps or mental disabilities during the run of “I Love Lucy” due to a belief in “basic good taste”
Rx71 TIL there’s a PS2 video game where you play as a mosquito and your job is to suck blood from a family.
xVPa0 TIL a man in Oklahoma was sentenced to a life in prison for standing near less than a fifth of a gram of weed on the floor in his friends apartment.
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