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TIL that Big Bird escaped death from the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion

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P1xxZ TIL that for a while in the 2010s, you could rent the country of Liechtenstein on Airbnb for $70,000 a night. This included hanging out with the monarch, temporary currency, the ability to rename streets and a key to country.
KO1lE TIL there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth, but more molecules in 10 average sized drops of water, than stars in the observable universe!
j6nOQ TIL Korea crowd-sourced down payment to the IMF using private gold in the late 90s
YXrB TIL in 1997, Nike, Inc. fined one of its shoe factories in Vietnam $5,000 after it become known that plant management ordered workers to create 51 rubber penises as a gag gift for a company Official.
Zpa6D TIL that the majority of US sushi restaurants are supplied by a company started by the Moonies, a Korean cult. It is the same cult that caused the death of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.