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TIL a toy boat sold for price of a real one at auction

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OlO6 TIL Our galaxy probably contains at least 2 billion planets like Earth.
Oodg7 TIL Mealworms can eat Styrofoam
98ZB TIL That in 2011 in the US there were 1694 murders using knives, 496 murders with blunt object, 726 using bare hands and feet, and just 323 murders using rifles (including the ‘assault’ variety)
YDMv TIL that, outside of Washington, D.C., a Virginia man built a castle to be fully defensible in the case of nuclear Armageddon. Built entirely by its owner, it has three heating systems and a maze of underground conduits, and it has been used as a meeting place for a group of self-professed vampires.
bBY7 TIL that a Magical Negro is a plot device used in American fiction where a black stock character offers his or her wisdom, insight, or magical powers to help a troubled, white main character