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TIL the international space station (ISS) took 10 years and 15 countries working together to assemble

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j6NEQ TIL that fireflies are facing extinction in the United States.
epymD TIL that a con man defrauded Al Capone. He persuaded Capone to invest $50,000 in a scheme. After two months, he returned the funds. He informed Capone that the scheme had failed and that he had no funds to support himself. Capone, impressed by his candor, provided him with $5,000 to "tide him over."
a8x1b TIL the $1 million deal between Peacock streaming platform & SK Rex Heuermann’s estranged wife prompted NY lawmakers to file for amendment of “Son of Sam” law that bans criminals from profiting of the publicity of their crimes
JYQ0k TIL that while Nashville has a beautiful recreation of the Parthenon according to how it would look to the Ancient Greeks, Memphis has the world’s tenth largest pyramid and they decided to put a Bass Pro Shop in it
LkVoQ TIL that between the 11th and 19th centuries, Buddhist monks in northern Japan practiced a kind of meditation called Sokushinbutsu, in which they would mummify themselves alive by slowly weaning themselves off food and water before eventually starving to death