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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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x6Ook TIL Poison translates to Gift in German
wgaY TIL that in 1382, a French bookseller named Nicholas Flamel claimed to have transformed lead into gold after decoding an ancient book of alchemy. True or not, historical records show that Flamel did come into considerable wealth around this time, and donated his riches to charity.
5YK8p TIL about "Star Jelly", a strange jelly or slime that sometime appears on earth in the morning before disappearing or dissolving. Science has not explanation of this phenomenon. (Fixed link)
epy9g TIL that in 2009, two puppeteers placed $10,000 in coins in a chest, hid it in New York, and posted the clues on YouTube. Three years later, after no one found it, they dug up the treasure and donated it to people affected by Hurricane Sandy in 2012
rNm4w TIL "The Wire" (2002 - 2008), one of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of all time, won exactly zero Emmy awards.