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TIL that India's Mars probe cost less than the film Gravity.

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vYZj TIL Karl Marx’s last words were “Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”
dD008 TIL Puck, a male budgie, holds the world record for the largest vocabulary of any bird, at 1,728 words
N7V1E TIL in 2003 unknown Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman proved the long awaited Poincaré conjecture publishing it openly. He is the only person to reject Fields Medal, Clay Millennium prize of $1,000,000 and EMS prize. He has since vanished back to obscurity.
6WkQ TIL: Marilyn Monroe was raised in foster care & later, admitted to 2 psychiatric hospitals. Her mother was unwed & mentally unstable when she gave birth. Her mother & both maternal grandparents were in mental institutions. To escape foster care, Marilyn married one of her neighbors when she was 16.
6ZvZ TIL that nearly all vultures in India have died due to eating corpses of animals recently treated with the drug diclofenac. In a butterfly effect, there is now a major rabies problem, with an annual cost of US$26 billion per year.