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TIL a single old coin can buy you a fancy house.

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A5Po TIL that every ball used in an MLB game is covered in mud that comes from a secret location in New Jersey. A man skims through riverbanks to find the mud, then refines it before it’s applied to balls. It’s called the Lena Blackburne Original Baseball Rubbing Mud
O7yR TIL that Soviet psychology once classified “the struggle for truth and justice” as a symptom of paranoid, delusional schizophrenia.
epDlb TIL of Nicholas Macdonald Sarsfield Cod'd, an Irishman who in 1830 named himself a pretender to the throne of the new Kingdom of Greece. His attempt to get the job of King of Greece was rejected by the British Foreign Secretary, despite his claim to be descended from a Byzantine emperor.
De9g TIL that when you have logged in to facebook with a computer they can track almost everything you do on the internet as long as they are open in a tab. They can also take in data of websites that you used while it was down
neVMY TIL that a Calvin and Hobbes comic from 1992 referred to the start of the universe as the Horrendous Space Kablooie, saying that "The Big Bang" was too boring. The term Horrendous Space Kablooie (or HSK) has since become popular among scientists, and has been used in books and university courses.