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TIL that when they started Apple, the amount of memory to hold a song cost about a million dollars.

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8g44 TIL deuterium, one of the ingredients of nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater, and “viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor, a gallon of seawater could produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline.”
9JXG TIL when a marine asked his friend to watch his house while he was gone the friend decided to do $70,000 worth of renovations on it.
PYYLw TIL that woodpeckers have exceptionally long tongues that wrap around their brains.
dDa49 TIL despite his movies frequently bombing in the US Adam Sandler is massively popular on the international market and in Latin America especially.
nRr TIL that in 1966, the US lost a hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean Sea, and struggled to find it. Finally, a Spanish fisherman helped them find it, and asked for the $20 million finder’s reward that the US owed according to law.