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TIL Cost of lab-grown burger patty dropped from $325,000 to $11 in 2 years

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Lk4rP TIL that fire fighting was an unofficial competition at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in both professional and volunteer categories.
Ola7 TIL while free to watch online, the single ticket price for attending a TED talk starts at $8,500!
dyE8 TIL Matt Damon and Marky Mark have a pact to just go with it whenever someone mistakes one for the other.
xVeDo TIL Cup Noodles were invented after Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen, watched as American supermarket executives broke up his ramen to fit into styrofoam coffee cups, added boiling water & then proceeded to eat the ramen with forks.
VyQm TIL of Kremlinology. During the Cold War, so little information was available about the USSR’s government that Kremlinologists studied the order Soviet leaders appeared (or didn’t appear) during parades, and the timing and spacing between them, to see who was powerful and who had lost influence.