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TIL that NASA estimates that the value of minerals in the asteroid belt exceeds $600,000,000,000,000,000,000. Or nearly $100 billion per person alive.

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ZyVQ TIL that prostitution is not a crime in the UK, but some related activities like soliciting in a public place, or owning a brothel are
m1vXp TIL that the hooded pitohuis is a poisonous bird. In 1990, when museum workers tried to put the bird in a museum, their hands began to burn. They are the first documented poisonous birds.
wopdJ TIL that legendary University of Alabama football coach Bear Bryant has a species of shark named after him due to the type material being held at McWane Science Center, which Bryant made contributions to during his life.
6RRw TIL Coconuts and coconut cultivation are so old, we don’t know where on Earth they originated
Qnlk TIL that there are now more Americans in jail than there were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago