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TIL a standard NASA space suit costs a staggering 12 million $. It is capable of protecting the astronaut from temperatures ranging from −156 °C (−249 °F) to 121 °C (250 °F).

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wy87 TIL hundreds of excavating machines (worth millions of dollars) have been buried underground in London because abandoning them is cheaper than digging them back out
d8GNE TIL in 1896, two locomotives were crashed on purpose as a publicity stunt. Two spectators were killed by the boiler explosion. The responsible agent was fired and reemployed on the next day because of lacking negative publicity.
lDZ1 TIL that China produces 73% of all of the world’s watermelons, and 17.5 times more than the next most productive country, Turkey.
gQaA TIL the total cost of the Challenger Space Shuttle recovery by the Navy ($13.1 million) was equal to the street value of a duffle bag of cocaine found during the search
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