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TIL in 2006 an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay with the starting price $0.01

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bj80 TIL of an Indonesian myth about Hainuwele, a girl who magically defecated valuable objects before being buried alive.
GYP47 TIL: The BBC almost didn't air the first report from the Belsen concentration camp as they couldn't believe its content. They only relented when journalist Richard Dimbleby threatened to resign if they didn't.
m1NJY TIL that French General Philippe Petain in 1916 was called from a hotel room where he was spending the night with a Miss Hardon, to take charge of the Battle of Verdun.
vPYo4 TIL about colloidal suspensions. It is a type of mixture where tiny particles of one substance are evenly dispersed in another substance. The particles are so small that they do not settle to the bottom, but instead stay suspended in the mixture.
WkROA TIL Vikram Seth missed the Penguin deadline for submitting his anticipated sequel novel "A Suitable Girl" in 2017 due to suffering from writer's block as a result of the failure of a relationship. As of 2020 the novel was still unfinished