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TIL Spacesuits take 5,000 hours to make and cost around $1 million.

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VrwD TIL of 3 men whom broke into a luxury store in Germany and ran off with $6.8M worth of jewelry. They left behind a piece of evidence, sweat. DNA analysis led to not one but two suspects- identical twins. They couldn’t determine from which one. They went free.
epn7n TIL the last use of the guillotine in France was 1977
grEbA TIL that nuclear tablets are given to some cancer patients to fight/kill cancerous cells
DQD4D TIL that the world record for the longest Uber ride is 2,798 miles, set by YouTuber Mathew Beem in July 2021
GY4gN TIL that on the coast of Northern Ireland, there is a plateau of basalt slabs called the Giant's Causeway, a result of lava contracting and fracturing as it cooled. There is also a mythical explanation for its origins that details a fight between two giants from Ireland and Scotland