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TIL the estimated cost of the steel to build the Death Star is $852,000,000,000,000,000

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Wk8NX Today I learned Marriott started as a root beer stand in 1927. It’s first hotel wasn’t built until 1957.
Vgk0 TIL in 1987 a South Korean man went on a 57 person killing spree lasting over 8 hours after his girlfriend woke him up by swatting a fly on his chest.
G57Q TIL Ronald Reagan is the only US president to have been divorced.
d8p7 TIL In 2005, a Japanese bank tried to sell 1 share of J-COM for ¥610,000. Erroneously, they ended up selling 610,000 J-COM shares at the price of ¥1 per share. They lost over half a billion dollars.
M7DQ7 TIL about Pleistocene Park in Siberia where scientists are trying to recreate the ecosystem of the last glacial period (a long time ago)