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TIL the most expensive mansion ever built in the US ($179,925,000), was demolished 16 years after completion when the owner’s widow sold the property to a developer.

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VBoY8 TIL about long-term nuclear waste warning messages, designed to warn civilizations ~10,000+ years in the future of the dangers of nuclear waste sites. Proposed solutions include an atomic priesthood to perpetuate rituals and myths, and cats genetically modified to change color when irradiated.
neM5P TIL that people on Imgur, and who post on Imgur are called "Imgurians."
GAo05 TIL that in 1909, a toy company came up with a challenge to the popular teddy bear- Billy Possum, a stuffed possum. They were initially popular but the fad died in less than a year.
yQ1QV TIL every Australian state has only one large city and the majority of every state lives in those cities.
QJ7pe TIL In 1936 part-time inventor Anton Loibl, a Nazi, and Hitler's chauffeur, invented bicycle reflectors. The SS went into business with him. The Nazis then brought in traffic laws requiring all bicycles to have reflectors, creating a cash windfall for the SS