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TIL that a typical asteroid, like Eros, contains precious metals worth at least $20 trillion

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v6eB TIL that if the distance between a woman’s clitoris and vagina is greater than 3 cm (1.18 inches), she has a lower chance of having an orgasm through intercourse alone.
5v09 TIL that a carrot farmer trying to cut back food waste (over half of carrots produced are too ugly for grocery shelves) carved & created the first batch of ‘baby carrots’ using a green bean cutter. 30 years later, these carrots account for 70 percent of all carrot sales
1GBV TIL Sweden has a nuclear bunker system under Stockholm that has some of the biggest servers hosted at. ex: Wiki leaks and The Pirate Bay.
AYy4 TIL that some children in Colombia need to use a a quarter of a mile high zip line above the Rio Negra because it’s the only way to get to school
VbEQ TIL Prior to his “A Song Of Ice And Fire” series being published, George R.R. Martin was a screenwriter for “Max Headroom” and wrote the Christmas Special