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TIL antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth at $62.5 trillion per gram

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KOkgQ TIL about Kiviak, a traditional Inuit food from Greenland that consists of up to 500 small birds stuffed into a seal skin and left to ferment for several months. "The fermented intestinal fluids are sucked out from the whole birds, or used as a sauce for other foods."
0wjrR TIL that 65-70% of the adults in the world are lactose intolerant because we aren't really made to drink milk after infancy
GAQ4G TIL: Famine is not a natural disaster — nearly all historical famines, such as the Irish Potato Famine, are primarily man-made.
b6Pm9 TIL the Norwegian government pension fund has over 1.7 trillion US dollars (~325,000 per citizen). This is 1.5% of the world's listed companies, the result of decades of investing oil revenues. Some companies can't be in the portfolio due to ethical concerns, e.g. Lockheed Martin and Philip Morris.
xVyAB TIL there is an inn in Japan that has been in continuous operation since 718 -- over 1300 years & 46 generations -- and it's not even the Guinness Work Record holder for oldest inn.