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TIL Japan has been the top creditor in the world, holding the highest net external assets since 1990

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E1p0x TIL USA spent about 24 billion dollars on the “Saturn-Apollo” program until 1969, which would correspond to the sum of about 150 billion dollars today. It was the price to pay to make history, for the first people on the Moon to be American astronauts.
kZa1 TIL that the crew of the Apollo 15 moon mission took 398 unauthorised postage stamp covers to the moon with them, with the intention of selling 100 of them to a German stamp dealer who provided them. When discovered, NASA re-assigned all the astronauts involved to non-flight roles.
D1mnP TIL world's largest pillow fight involved 7,681 participants in Minnesota.
4XgJ5 TIL Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi has a sensory condition known as synesthesia where he associates music with color and vice versa.
epeE4 TIL that the WWII Japanese military had a wildfire campaign targeted at the USA, launching some 9,000 fire balloons into the jet stream, with an estimated 11% reaching the U.S. between November 1944 and April 1945. In the end the balloon bombs caused a total of six fatalities.