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TIL A Barbie with a real pink diamond choker sold for $302,500 in a New York auction

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oB7Xr TIL in the US in 1944 there were 25.6 million dairy cows which produced 53.0 billion kg of milk. In 2007 there were only 9.8 million dairy cows (38% of previous population) yet they produced 84.2 billion kg of milk (59% more).
Yrl7 TIL that Nicolas Cage purchased a rare dinosaur skull for $276,000 in an auction after winning a bidding contest against Leonardo DiCaprio. After being contacted by authorities, he discovered that the skull was stolen and he returned it to the Mongolian Government.
la87 TIL more salt is used for de-icing roads (8% of global manufactured salt) than for human consumption (6%).
loVM7 TIL Grant Imahara designed and built a robot for the Late Late show with Craig Fergusen:
gr1wD TIL that the "Lloyd's Bank coprolite" is the largest-recorded fossilized piece of human faeces in existence. It is about 1200 years old, 8 inches long, 2 inches wide and was dropped by a Viking who mainly subsisted on meat and grains.