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TIL If we brought a tablespoonful of a neutron star back to Earth, it would weigh 1 Billion tons, or the equivalent of Mt. Everest

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RKD9 TIL Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000, but they said no because the president considered the telephone an electrical toy with no commercial possibilities.
rNnEW TIL about SN 1006, a supernova in the year 1006 CE that was described by observers on multiple continents, some 600 years before the first telescope. It was visible in the daytime sky for weeks, and the gamma rays it emitted created a sedimentary record on Earth. We have images of its remnants.
b6jQ TIL there is a man in NYC who digs through the cracks in sidewalks in search of gold and diamonds, making as much as $819 in six days.
woldY TIL the only Monegasque competitor to ever have won an Olympic medal Olympic is Julien Médécin, who received a Bronze medal for Architecture in 1924
M7bd8 TIL that average salary of an engineer in Pyongyang is $2 a month + up to $50 in bonuses and about 600 grams of rice and corn. It’s half of that in other NK cities (interview with top NK expert, timestamp - 2:03:06)