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TIL: The first thing Bob Barker gave away on The Price is Right was a Muskrat Fur Coat. It cost $595

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QJ9bL TIL that the three eldest people in the UK were all born on the exact same day in 1908.
B4Ey TIL that the oldest person ever to live made a deal with a 47 year old lawyer at age 90; he would pay her 2500 francs per month in return for her apartment when she died. He paid more than double the apartment’s worth, and ended up dying two years before her.
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