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

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4vg5 TIL In Australia no one has died from spider bites since 1979, and only about 7 people die a year from combined snake/shark/crocodile/jellyfish “attacks”.
bnYQ TIL that Cee lo green made a remake of fuck you in 2011 called thank you as a tribute to fire fighters and a thank you for fire fighters saving his mothers life in a car crash.
a059 TIL Paypal plans to create their own island in order to avoid taxes
E1yg7 TIL raw salmon isn't a classic sushi topping. It gradually became popular only after Norway started selling farmed parasite-free Atlantic salmon to Japan in the early 1990s.
JoL8 TIL Big Ben Clock Towers time is kept accurate by adding or removing pennies on its pendulum changing the clock’s speed by +/- 0.4 seconds per day