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TIL Google is now worth more than the entire Russian stock market

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AmVg TIL James Blunt put his sister on eBay as a “damsel in distress” when she couldn’t get to a funeral. the guy who won had a helicopter. He flew her to the funeral. Three years later they were getting married
N7WnP TIL In 2007, a local Japanese railway station “hired” a cat named Tama as an official, helping the local economy bring in over 1 billion yen during her service. When she died 8 years later, thousands of people came to her funeral.
JZok TIL female pigs were used to hunt truffles as they are attracted to their smell, which resembles that of a male pig’s sex hormones. The use of pigs to hunt truffle was banned in Italy in 1985 as they tend to damage the truffles while hunting.
kYdE TIL, 50 years ago the US sent half a billion inch-long copper needles in space. They’re still floating around the earth.
X0gRR TIL These are actually planters and not trash cans