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TIL that the annual electricity cost of running the Large Hadron Collider run about $23.5 million.

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OorlX TIL the duck-billed platypus coexisted with dinosaurs, with scientists dating them back to the Jurassic period.
5VE9 TIL Russian and Japan still haven’t signed a peace treaty to end World War II
VM0O4 TIL Many polls and surveys are not interested in your response. They are not polls at all. Instead they are marketing pushes disguised as polls that steer your thinking through manipulative questioning. Its called "push polling".
bMXE TIL in 1992, a team of game developers used a white puffball as a placeholder graphic while they designed their game’s protagonist. They grew fond of the puffball, and decided to keep him rather than replace him with a real character. He became the iconic character Kirby.
WkpGN TIL: George Lucas traded 2.5% of "Star Wars" ticket sales with Steven Spielberg for 2.5 % of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" sales. Lucas did this because he was not sure that Star Wars would be profitable. Spielberg ended up making $40 Million from Star Wars.