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TIL Three of Nigeria’s wealthiest pastors spent more than $60 million on private jets between March 2009 and March 2011.

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y1nw TIL That the gender of reptiles depends on the temperature of the environment the eggs was layed in.
g0PW TIL: Stephen King only charges $1 to adapt his short stories into films. He calls them “dollar babies”.
mx41R TIL that ferrock is a greener and stronger alternative to concrete by using recycled waste and absorbing carbon dioxide in its production. However, it has not taken off yet because it cost more to make and makes use of waste steel dust which could some day have potential economic uses elsewhere.
yQRaJ TIL NASA originally planned to fly moon missions up to Apollo 20, but budget cutbacks ended at Apollo 17 and left 3 Saturn V rockets unused. 2 wound up in museums, and 1 was repurposed to launch the Skylab space station.
oBVeK TIL Jello Biafra, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Dead Kennedy’s, ran for the Green Party’s presidential nomination in 2000. Some of his ideas included lowering the voting age to 5 and abolishing the military.