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TIL Larry Flynt considered buying the Playboy Mansion for well below the $200 million asking price in 2016. However, the deal fell apart as Flynt's Hustler company would not accept the condition that Playboy boss Hugh Hefner must be allowed to continue living at the site after the sale

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b9Pma TIL that in 1904 a British mission lead by Colonel Francis Younghusband killed 1,300 Tibetans in Gyangzê. This is omitted in every Western media statement about Tibetan independence from PRC.
JYjEk TIL String cheese is made by heating mozzarella to 60 °C which causes the milk proteins to line up. They can then be peeled off in strings.
nWm77 TIL in 1972 US Senator Thomas Eagleton was forced to withdraw as a Presidential runningmate because he had sought treatment for depression
XGbP TIL that in Japan, May 9th is officially recognized as “Goku Day” to honor the protagonist of the Dragonball series.
R76bl TIL about Acclimatisation Societies. Groups of people from the 19th century that would purposely introduce exotic species to new places. They are responsible for massive ecological disasters.