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TIL about the Mongolian "Dzud" of 2009-2010 that killed 22% of their livestock and doubled the price of meat.

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XNak TIL in a rubbish dump in Newport, Wales there is a discarded hard drive containing the private key to 7,500 Bitcoins. At today’s US$3,211 Bitcoin price, the hard drive is worth more than US$24,000,000.
pY68Q TIL about asteroid J002E3, which was discovered 16 years ago orbiting the earth. It turned out to be the 3rd stage of Apollo 12, which had come back to earth orbit after going around the sun for over 30 years.
j68wX TIL The Solar maximum is expected in July 2025, with a peak of 115 sunspots
E1kxd TIL In 2019, researchers painted cows black-and-white and found that fly bites reduced by 50%, because flies are less likely to sit on black-and-white striped surfaces. They have proposed this method as a possible prevention technique for the spread of disease through fly bites.
VM8ND TIL Germany 'acquired' an entire Ancient Greek temple, dismantled it, shipped it back to Berlin and re-assembled it there as a museum.