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TIL a single asteroid can contain US$20 trillion worth of metals.

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JMb1 TIL Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of current embattled Syrian president, flaunted to Thomas Freidman that he killed 38,000 people in the 1982 Hama Massacre. He currently lives in the UK, and since there was no War Crimes Tribunal three decades ago, and the Statute of Limitations, he cannot be prosecuted.
mxDXE TIL about hydraulic injection injuries, which often go untreated and lead to necrosis and severe tissue damage
N7mDE TIL about scholar's stones or gonshi naturally occurring or shaped rocks which are traditionally appreciated by Chinese scholars.
oBgQo TIL that the three great minds: Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger behind Quantum Mechanics all read from and greatly respected the Vedas, the ancient Indian Sanskrit texts on spirituality. Schrödinger even mentioned this in a book he wrote called "My view of the world."
nWJBP TIL Edward Neumeier turned down a promotion to Vice-President at Universal Pictures so he could finish the RoboCop screenplay with Michael Miner