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TIL that during the Great Depression, farmers who'd had their farms foreclosed on would show up to the bank's auction and buy their farms back for pennies with low bids. Anyone else that tried to outbid would be threatened by the rest of the community. These came to be known as penny auctions,

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Nra6 TIL in 2008, while promoting a new High School Musical film , Disney had to withdraw a line of young girls underwear from the shelves after they were deemed too sexually suggestive. Why? They had the slogan “Dive in” written on the front.
QwKd TIL Steven Tyler did so many drugs that he forgot that he recorded certain songs. Upon hearing “Toys in the Attic”, he said “Hey! That’s great! We should cover this. Who is it?” Joe Perry responded, “It’s us, fuckhead.”
p8xYN TIL the Plymouth/Dodge Neon ACR was so competitve in its racing class that SCCA, the governing body, had to start accepting new add-ons for other vehicles to keep them competitive with the Neon.
544Q TIL while filming the movie disaster Ishtar, the animal trainer needed to find a blue-eyed camel. He found the perfect one at the first dealer but decided to shop around. Realizing how rare blue-eyed camels are, he returned to the first trader, who had since eaten the camel.
xyLo TIL that a man “blinked a book”. Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffered from the Locked-in syndrome, could control only his left eyelid. By blinking his eye, he slowly dictated one alphabetic character at a time and, by doing so, was able to write his memoirs (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).