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Wk9r9 TIL that an original copy of the Declaration of Independence was bought at a Tennessee thrift store for just $2.48 along with a candelabra and a set of salt and pepper shakers. It was then sold to a Utah firm for $477,650, nearly 200,000 times the original price.
kZZ5 TIL that celebrating Christmas is punishable by five-year imprisonment in Brunei
BKjr TIL Rory McCann (The Hound from Game of Thrones) once fell 70 ft while rock climbing without a rope and broke both of his ankles, an arm, and a wrist, as well as fracturing his skull. He went on to play a man left paraplegic after a climbing accident in one of his earliest roles.
4XLBR TIL: The vampire squid is not a squid or an octopus. It is the only living member of Vampyromorpha, an ancient cephalopod order which was a precursor to squids and octopuses
5VmRn TIL: A mule always has a donkey father and a horse mother. An offspring of a horse father and a donkey mother is called a hinny.