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TIL Costco hasn’t changed the price of its $1.50 hot dog and soda combo in 30 years.

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GYDB4 TIL No one in China expected that Chairman Mao would die, so there were no preparations at all for his death. Mao's body was drained of fluids, injected with formaldehyde, and it was said his head swelled up “like a football”
Z88Da TIL: Lily Allen turns down 200k in Bitcoins for a gig in 2009.
P1OXe TIL in the US police get as low as 672 hours of training, while New Zealand the next lowest Western country requiring at least 1924 hours of training. And a lot of countries require 4500 hours of training.
yDja TIL In 2013 Scientists wired the brains of two rats together and showed that signals from one rat’s brain can help the second rat solve a problem it would otherwise have no clue how to solve.
p8JL8 TIL that in 2005, scientists found a 20cm long stone penis, in a German cave. It is about 28,000 years old and is believed to have been used as a dildo.