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TIL rich people buy "luxury" ice cubes for $325.

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OaVe Today I learned Jimi Hendrix had synesthesia; He could literally see the music
8a79Z TIL an orangutang in San Diego Zoo kept escaping his enclosure so that he could walk around the zoo and look at the other animals as well as throw faeces at his ex-enclosure mate that he didn’t like.
6ErbJ TIL the sun has a gravitational acceleration of 275 m/s². If one were able to walk on the sun they'd feel a force of 28 g (28 times the gravitational force on earth)
v1Vlr TIL the first US President's dog to received regular coverage from the press was President Harding's "Laddie Boy." That's because of Harding's doting of him as the dog had his own seat in cabinet meetings. Harding even had miniature statues of him made that he handed out as gifts.
kJpKW TIL: Tom Selleck was accused of stealing ove One Million gallons of water for 63-acre California avocado farm in 2015. Selleck and his wife eventually agreed to pay a settlement to the sum of more than $21,000.