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TIL of Antihydrogen, a material valued at 90 trillion dollars per gram, making it the most expensive material in the world.

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yDk8 TIL reindeer herds being raised for meat in Norway still need to be tested for radioactivity due to fallout from the Chernobyl disaster. Reindeer that are too radioactive to eat are released into the wild.
OojD4 TIL that smelling hydrogen sulfide (AKA farts) is good for your health, as a study conducted by the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and University of Texas says.
6PyJ TIL at the 68th Academy Awards, Apollo 13 lost Best Visual Effects to Babe. That’s right, the talking pig.
4XxYb TIL The Thanksgiving episode of WKRP in Cincinnati was based on a real turkey giveaway that went horribly wrong
BgBYy TIL the Air Heads mystery flavor is just a combo of whatever flavors are left in the factory on a given day. It was a teenager's idea - who wrote about it in a letter to the brand in 1993.