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TIL that a woman died of natural causes and her free-range pet golden hamster scavanged her body to make a nest of her bones, skin and flesh.

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mJPY TIL that if you scale the age of the universe down to one calendar year, all of recorded human history takes place in the last 14 seconds of December 31
VBgLZ TIL nursing blue whale calves gain weight at about 10 lbs. per hour, or about 250 lbs. per day.
4Y6o TIL that the Wachowskis asked Warner Bros. for $80 million to make The Matrix but only got $10 million approved, so they decided to spend all of that money on the opening sequence. They showed it to the Warner executives who were so impressed that they gave them their original budget.
6EQ6Y TIL that exclusive sale rights of colchicine, a 2000-year-old treatment for gout, was given to a pharmaceutical company in 2009. They raised the price 50x, costing the government over $50 million/year.
BPob TIL In the six years after the The Biggest Loser, all but one contestant gained back most of their lost weight, despite continuing to diet and exercise.