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TIL if you wanted to recreate the entire LEGO movie, you would need 15,080,330 LEGO pieces.

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6oVZ TIL that earth has several other companions additional to our moon, such as Cruithne and the trojan asteroid 2010 TK7, which is about 300 meters large, and revolve the sun coupled to earth’s orbit.
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