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TIL that in 2006, a man tried to sell New Zealand on E-Bay. The bid reached $3,000 before E-Bay officials shut it down.

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WO7N TIL that with the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656, Christiaan Huygens increased the best accuracy of clocks from 15 minutes deviation a day to around 15 seconds a day.
R7ZM8 TIL that the Queen of England is the only person to have ever eaten British Chocolate ???? In 1932 a factory in York tried growing cacao plants in the inhospitable British weather, but harvested only enough for one small bar, which they presented to Elizabeth II.
ANgmn TIL approximately 3% of the population has experienced psychosis
j6EYX TIL the term “gaslighting” actually comes from a 1938 play, “Gas Light”, where a husband manipulates his wife to make her think she’s actually losing her sense of reality so he can commit her to a mental institution and steal her inheritance.
GY9L5 TIL the Queen had watched The Crown and was reported to have enjoyed the series, although she found some of the events depicted to be too dramatic.