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TIL that the total size of the Google Earth database is over 20 Petabytes.

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PZnJ TIL that the metallic “coin smell” is not from the coins themselves, but that it is actually a body odor produced when you touch the coins
KxmB TIL In 1998, a NY couple, Donald and Mildred Othmer, bequeathed $800 million to various institutions. Donald was a professor, Mildred a former teacher, they had no children and lived modestly. But back in the 60s, they invested their savings with an old family friend from Omaha, Warren Buffet.
0d0Jp TIL that before his involvment in the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was extremely lazy, never had a real job, dropped out of school and was very poor for many years. At one point he was sleeping on park benches and begging for money and later lived at a home for poor men for a few years.
D110Y TIL of Manga Kenkanryu, a Japanese comic series about Japanese young people who form a group critical of Korea, debating a pro-Korea Group, and humiliating them
40R6 TIL that there is an extremely rare camera lens manufactured by Canon, it has 1200mm focal lenght and it costs roughly 90,000$