A New York man paid a whopping $825,000 for one of the most prominently flawed stamps in U.S. history.
The rare 1918 24-cent stamp shows an upside-down Curtis JN-4 biplane known as Jenny, a World War I training aircraft that became an airmail plane.
The mint condition red, white and blue stamp is said to be one of the finest known existing stamps from the original sheet of 100 misprints.
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Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. The weight of the precious stone reportedly makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats (or five million trillion trillion pounds).
The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter.
The stone is located at a distance of 50 light years from Earth, in the Constellation Centaurus.
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