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TIL: if you take the cost of the raw materials in a human body; A human costs about $1985.77

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NX4ZQ TIL Drake's Plate - a brass plaque initially believed to be inscribed & left by Sir Francis Drake at the site of his CA landfall & considered CA's greatest historic treasure at the time of its "discovery" - was a prank on historians by their peers that escalated out of control (despite many clues)
m1RgO TIL about the Inland taipan, the most venomous snake known, it is estimated that one bite of the this species possesses enough lethality to kill more than 100 fully grown humans.
J1YgB TIL that as a result of the "Baby Einstein" franchise of videos and books being named after Albert Einstein, royalties paid to his estate made Einstein one of the top five earning dead celebrities for a time.
OGmJ6 TIL that the “Cheerios effect” is how small objects (such as pieces of cereal) floating in liquid attract each other due to surface tension
KYr9J TIL Emperor Nero added events such as poetry, singing, acting and playing the lyre into the Olympics in 67 AD and declared himself the winner in all of them. He also 'claimed' victory in four-horse chariot race despite entering with ten horses and getting injured when he was thrown from his chariot.