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TIL you can buy your own island for as little as $500,000 USD

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oBPn8 TIL that in 2008 an app called "I Am Rich" was released for a day. It had absolutely no purpose, cost $999.99, and eight people bought it just to show that they could afford it.
xVvYw TIL That Neil Armstrong's NASA application was a week late and if it weren't for his friend, Dick Day, secretly slipping it into the pile of on-time applications, he would have been rejected.
WDr8 TIL former president Gerald Ford turned down contract offers from both the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions so he could attend law school at Yale.
xV8V5 TIL that the band ZZ Top has had the same members and has been performing for 50 consecutive years
XNjk TIL that in August 1967, the U.S. Defense Department published a 200 page report concluding that most American soldiers didn’t fully comprehend the Geneva Conventions. No actions were taken; the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam occurred 7 months later.