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TIL a fully loaded C-130 Hercules can carry $2.4b in cash. In 2003, twenty-one shipments of American cash totaling 363 tonnes were flown into Iraq. $6.6b of that money is totally unaccounted for and could be the largest cash theft in American history.

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W7J1L TIL Ariana Grande gets less than 10% of the royalties for her 2019 single "7 Rings". Most of it goes to the estate of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the songwriters of "My Favourite Things"
5Y01k TIL that a research by Harvard scientist suggested that the earth can sustain a maximum population of 10 billion. As of 2020, we are at est 7.8 Billion, almost close to 80% capacity!
VM1Vm TIL the man who voiced Tigger from "Winnie the Pooh" was the first to invent an artificial heart
5VmAr TIL the line on the side of ships called the plimsoll line is named after the MP Samuel Plimsoll
b9AX9 TIL helium can’t be artificially produced and is formed in natural gas wells as ancient uranium decays. The half-life of the most prevalent uranium isotope is billions of years old (older than Earth itself), so helium takes inordinate amounts of time to form.