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TIL about a Miner’s egg, a method in which miners would smuggle silver ore out of mines using candle wax, and later “lay” once out of the mine.

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vLNR TIL That there was a movie made in 2009 consisting only of paint drying, as a rebuttal to critics who mention that they “Would rather watch paint dry” than a particular film.
nP7W TIL for almost 20 years, and against JFK’s orders, all US nuclear weapons were secured with the combination password of “0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0”
OG44R TIL if you tune your radio to 91.9 FM for one city block in Montclair, NJ you can hear a looped recording of "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men which has been broadcasting for at least 13 years straight.
EjP0 TIL there is an $11,000 royalty fee a climber must pay to the Nepal government to climb Mount Everest. They earn around $3.25 million every season.
GY894 TIL super weaners are elephant seal pups who, in an attempt to slow their weaning, will steal milk from nursing female elephant seals ("milk thieves"), or be adopted by another nursing mother elephant seal ("double mother-sucklers"). Super weaners are usually male, and may weigh up to 600 lbs.