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TIL the most expensive retail price on a wrist watch is $1,750,000 for a Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon

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xQJg TIL in 2013, Melbourne, Australia assigned it’s trees individual email address with the idea that if citizens had any concerns they could make reports. The plan backfired due to people sending love letters to their favorite trees.
LAyp TIL 70% of the spices used in the world come from one country. India.
V9GZ TIL that James May (ex-TopGear, The Grand Tour presenter and motoring journalist) was fired from Autocar magazine because he hid a secret message while getting bored of editing their annual review.
6ENwX TIL that a poet enciphered a poem into the DNA sequence of an "unkillable" bacteria, ensuring that his words will survive billions of years, beyond the human race and the Earth itself
R76jl TIL that although Usain Bolt has won 8 gold medals in the Olympics, he only ran for 114 seconds in the finals. When you include the preliminary rounds, Bolt has spent only 325 seconds on the Olympics track. This means that he has got a gold medal for every 36 seconds, including qualifying rounds.