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TIL a Malaysian billionaire, Robert Kuok, spent 4.8 billion dollars on a 100 foot yacht in 2011 because it was built with 220,460 pounds of precious metals. The world’s most advanced nuclear attack submarine costs 1.5 billion less

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8aryL TIL Actor Billy Dee Williams (Lando from StarWars) Promotes A Life View Without The Concept Of Race. He Sees Himself As A "Universal Being Part Of The Cosmos" And Since The 80s Has Criticized Show Business For Creating Race Stereotypical Characters Which He Has Avoided As An Actor.
lo9mA TIL that turkeys can fly up to 60 miles an hour despite their 20 pound heft. They roost high up in the trees at night, but spend most of their time on the ground, causing the misconception that they are incapable of flight at all.
jNaPM TIL that an egg yolk’s color can be affected by a chicken’s diet and that a diet of peppers that naturally have lots of red pigment produces completely red egg yolks
jAmv TIL a mere 12,000 years ago a species closely related to modern humans had been living on an Indonesian island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall, weighing around 25kg.
ADgp7 TIL that in 2008, the Municipality of Florence officially apologized for expelling Dante 700 years earlier.