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TIL Hoba meteorite - the main mass is estimated at more than 60 tonnes. It is the largest known intact meteorite (as a single piece)

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7NEX TIL Justice Antonin Scalia died on the same ranch they filmed “There Will Be Blood” and “No Country For Old Men”
wDO1 TIL That Pixar granted a wish from 10-year-old Colby Curtin to see UP before she died from cancer. A Pixar employee flew to the Curtin’s house with a DVD of the finished film and screened it for her and her family. Curtin died seven hours later at 9:20 pm, shortly after seeing the film.
J161 TIL that 22 Arab countries all offered full recognition of Israel if they supported a Two-State solution for Palestine, and are rejected to this day
yVLQJ TIL that in 1979, Elf, a French oil compagny, lost over $150 million in a scam. Alain de Villegas, a Belgian Count, had led ELF officials to believe that a company had created a machine capable of detecting oil fields from the air. The scandal is known as the "Avions Renifleurs" ("Sniffer Planes").
Ek9p TIL that before her 7-day trip to space, NASA engineers asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was the right number for the mission