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TIL caviar is so expensive because to harvest it you have to kill the host fish, which must be at least 10 years old.

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NXAP1 TIL the boom in mathematics during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Western world is correlated with the development of artillery and the increasing need for military professionals, especially artillerists, to be skilled in mathematics
ZpgXB TIL "The wondering whore" wa the first guide book about the city's prostitutes that circulated in London beginning in 1661. Even through it was actually a guide, it was written as if it was meant to instruct the "law abiding citizens" how to avoid the prostitutes
nGE9 TIL if you go to Venezuela with one US penny, you can buy 5 gallons of oil
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