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TIL Stephen King’s lawyers had to buy the van that hit King in 1999 to keep it from appearing on eBay.

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9YQdM TIL our modern depiction of the stereotypical witch comes from brewsters of the Middle Ages who would use cauldrons to brew, broomsticks as shop signs, and tall pointy hats to stand out in a crowd.
9YKMp TIL that Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II had young infants raised without speaking to them in the 13th century to determine if there was a "natural" language imparted by God. His experiments proven unsuccessful because all the children raised this way died.
OgYe TIL that banks are earning huge profits from betting on food prices. This drives up global food prices, forcing millions around the world into deeper poverty and hunger.
ppEO TIL it would cost $100 trillion to buy a 1 Yottabyte hard drive, the world’s GDP is about $61 Trillion
VMrr0 TIL Elizabethan era upper-class Englishmen were restricted to spending no more than 100 pounds per year on clothing.