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TIL that M&M's were the first candy that eaten in space.

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yvxJ TIL that horseshoe-crab blood, at $60,000/gallon, is valued to such an extreme degree because it is not only employed worldwide in bacterial contamination tests, it is also used in testings for every single drug approved by the FDA, making it a $50 million/year industry.
EEO0 TIL Alfred Nobel invented dynamites. And when he was mistakenly declared dead in 1888, newspapers published obituaries that stated that “the merchant of death is dead.” Ashamed to leave such a legacy, he left the money he made from dynamites to celebrate humanity; thus created the Nobel Prize.
9ww7m TIL that the town of Las Vegas,Nevada, was originally founded by Mormon missionaries
oe9R TIL The Queen of England is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth’s surface
9YLyB TIL that 9 of 10 of the teams in the Korean Baseball League are named after the companies that own them, such as the Kia Tigers and the LG Twins.