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TIL the Swedish royal family befriended a 19 year old Somali refugee, who proceeded to sell the Swedish crown jewelry to drug dealers and tossed a 40,000 dollar tiara into a stream.

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Ymav TIL in 2006 an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on Ebay. The starting price was $0.01AU and managed to reach $3000 before Ebay closed the auction.
XlGX TIL debuting in 1979 as a one-time, 13-part series, “This Old House” was one of the earliest home improvement shows. It was initially controversial among building contractors, and the cast was afraid that they were giving away secrets of the building trades.
mPnR TIL studies show that people eat worse than they normally would if the restaurant offers healthy alternatives. Merely seeing a healthy menu option satisfies the goal to be healthy.
wxo7 TIL Pat Morita fought tuberculosis at a young age which resulted in him being in a body cast on and off from ages 2-11 and being told he would never walk, some of you might better know him as Mr.Miyagi from the Karate Kid films or Arnold from Happy Days
8eanV TIL that at the height of its power the Hudson’s Bay Company claimed eight million square kilometres in North America as its own and even had its own currency called "Made Beaver" (it valued goods by placing them against the standard of one prime beaver pelt)