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TIL that snails Have 14000 teeth and some can even Kill you!

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RZl6 TIL that the USA is ranked 4th for average (mean) wealth per adult at $348,000. But it is ranked 10th for median wealth, at $53,000. (page 10)
gMKE8 TIL that Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee, won an Olympic gold medal for himself in 1912 - with a poem. 'Ode to Sport' won in the category for literature. Previous Olympic events also included architecture, music, painting and sculpture, until 1948.
x6o5o TIL the KGB once smuggled a Sidewinder missile from West Germany by mailing it in pieces to Moscow. An agent earlier broke it through the back window of his Mercedes to drive back from the airbase, marked with a red cloth as required by law. He had brought it down the entire runway in a wheelbarrow.
eJeE TIL That Samsung has built a sentry gun which sits in the Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea, which is hostile to anyone it senses who cannot provide an authorised access code
GYJEj TIL a Scottish teen's mother had been nagging him for weeks to clean his bedroom. When Ryan Kitching finally cleaned his room, he found 12 old lottery tickets in a drawer; one of them was a winner for £52,981.