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TIL A human placenta is worth $50,000

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yQwel TIL that for the 10th anniversary edition of the film 'Titanic', James Cameron edited the starry night sky to be exactly as it would have been on April 15th, 1912 at 4:20am. This was after astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson repeatedly emailed, chiding him for getting the sky wrong in the original
N7L76 [TIL] that the soldiers who guarded the Nuremberg War Trials were former Waffen SS
rRaDd TIL that the scientific name for the Plains Bison is literally "Bison Bison Bison"
lDaN TIL Elvis Costello was banned from SNL after switching from “Less than Zero” to “Radio, Radio” mid performance. SNL’s producer gave him the finger for the duration of the song.
rlp4 TIL In 2001 a judge sentenced a 17 year old boy, arrested for paraphernalia, to listen to Afroman’s “Because I Got High” and write a three paragraph report about it.