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TIL bananas are facing extinction due to a fungal disease

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mxrrM TIL there are more endangered snails than any other bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian and fish put together.
8eyKG TIL Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) is the most expensive independent film ever made with a production budget of around $180 million. Although it grossed $226 million worldwide, it was considered a box-office bomb due to its high production and advertising costs.
mxJmo TIL Asphalt pavements are America's most recycled product. Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) can be recycled into pavement that is as high, or even higher, in quality as pavements made of all-virgin materials. And, the same material can be recycled again and again; it never loses its value.
GPlN TIL that Mississippi is one of only two states that do not allow for philosophical or religious exemptions for vaccinations.
x6AM1 TIL that the Golden Record sent to outer space by NASA also carries an hour long recording of the brainwaves of Ann Druyan who thought of many topics, including Earth's history, civilizations and the problems they face, and what it was like to fall in love, in addition to music and scientific images