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TIL that a chunk of Tissint meteorite, a Martian meteorite that crashed in Morocco in 2011, is worth 10 times the price of gold, at prices ranging from $8,500 to $28,350 per ounce.

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VM4e4 TIL that there are 3 trillion trees on Earth, which is more trees than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy and cells in the human brain.
gMljD TIL Andy Dalton and his wife rent out a hotel every year to let parents of children with disabilities drop off their kids for a much needed paid date night.
J1lmB TIL that to satisfy a record contract, goth rocker Andrew Eldritch recorded an album as the band SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW, said to stand for "Screw Shareholder Value - Not So Much a Band as Another Opportunity to Waste Money on Drugs and Ammunition Courtesy of the Idiots at Time Warner.”
b9WE9 TIL that Cats rub their heads against their people as a method of scent marking, but not of ownership. Instead, they're getting their scent on you because they know you're family, but you smell "funny" compared to them. They're trying to make you smell like them.
a8WKJ TIL selling child abuse material wasn't ruled to be outside of first amendment protections until 1982.