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TIL Adjusted for inflation, five of the ten highest prices ever paid for printed books were paid for copies of J.J Audubon's "Birds of America". A copy was sold for 970$ in 1839(around $110,000 today), the Sheikh of Qatar bought a copy for 8,8 million in 2000. The latest sale was for 6,6 million

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kL5e TIL that the company who created the Etch A Sketch was about to go bankrupt, right before they signed a deal with Pixar to have their product shown in Toy Story in 1995. The scene was only 12 seconds long, but it gave the company a 20% sales increase that saved the company.
J1o04 TIL Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, holds the Guiness World Record for the most name changes in modern times
kOJEW TIL The best selling drink in every country on Earth is either Coca-cola or a drink owned by the Coca-Cola company - except for one place. Scotlands own 'Irn-Bru'. It has been the most dominant soft drink in Scotland for a century.
GY894 TIL super weaners are elephant seal pups who, in an attempt to slow their weaning, will steal milk from nursing female elephant seals ("milk thieves"), or be adopted by another nursing mother elephant seal ("double mother-sucklers"). Super weaners are usually male, and may weigh up to 600 lbs.
dyW9 TIL University of California at Davis is one of the largest breeders and patent holders of strawberry varieties in the world