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TIL The photograph "Rhein II" by Andreas Gursky was the most expensive photograph ever sold

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MvWV TIL When Swedish Radiologist Anna Bågenholm woke up after the most severe case of hypothermia ever survived at the time (56.7 °F), she was angry with her colleagues for saving her because she was paralyzed from the neck down. She later recovered from paralysis and apologized.
6pjW TIL that President Harry S Truman’s middle name is just the letter S
AN75d TIL Australia is wider than the moon
epOR6 TIL Soviet officer Nikolai Kuznetsov, who spoke perfect German, penetrated German lines by posing as a German officer. He heard the first report of Operation Long Jump existing from a drunk SS officer (Nazi plan to kill/kidnap Stalin, Churchill & FDR at the Tehran conference). Soviets ended the plot
P1kLE TIL: The biggest company to ever exist was East India Company, at its peak it account for half of the world's trade.