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TIL that we are NOT running out of Helium any time soon.

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VBRpB TIL the IRS cannot cash single checks (including cashier's checks) for $100 million dollars or more.
kOVrm TIL in a 2005 NASA study, scientists successfully revived bacteria that had been in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years. The microbes had been frozen since when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. Once the ice melted, they began swimming around, unaffected, and quickly became infectious.
QNmX TIL Harrison Ford was Spielberg’s first choice to play the lead in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but Ford’s asking price was too high
wLYyE TIL the electric ray was used to numb the pain of childbirth by the ancient Greeks. Its ability to stun people without moving or using poison was held as evidence of the supernatural existing in nature.
MnWK TIL Instead of Following Hitler’s Orders, the German 12th Army Decided to Evacuate as Many Soldiers and Civilians to Surrender to the West Instead of the East in the Closing Days of WW2