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TIL that the annual 72,500 roubles rent that USA payed for the ambassadors house in Moscow was equal to 3 dollars in 2001 post-soviet inflation value. Since the US-Soviet contract didn't provide for currency fluctuations, USA argued that the rent should stay fixed.

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R7VVj TIL: In Back to the Future, the theatre in the background behind the clock tower shows "Orgy American Style" being shown. This is an actual porno from 1973. The male star from that porno played Red the Bum in the film, calling Marty a crazy drunk driver when returns to the present.
5YNbR TIL of viruses that attack bacteria called ‘bacteriophages'. The term phage originates from Greek phagein, which translates as ‘to eat'. A single phage injects its genome into a bacterial cell, switching the cells' program in its favor. The host cell eventually dies, releasing about 100 new phages.
kJ4RE TIL Four NASA interns stole $20 million in moon rocks in order to sell them for profit. Two of said interns reportedly crushed up sample and placed them under a pillow on order to “have sex on the Moon”
gyBW TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain
eAmn TIL Carrie Fisher and George Lucas appear in the 1991 movie “Hook” (as uncredited extras, the kissing couple on the bridge).