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9YAl7 TIL that vending machines, champagne corks, coconuts, and elephants all kill more people a year than sharks.
R9K4 TIL that Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani owns the world’s second most expensive residence in the world, a 27-storey high building containing 21 elevators, 600 staff and 37,000 m2 (400,000 sq ft) of living space. The residence is valued at more than US$ 1 billion.
OBwR TIL there are rats that live in a colony with a queen, workers and soldiers. They also: don’t feel pain, highly resistant to cancer, need very little oxygen and can live on a single tuber for months or years. Oh yes… and they get 3 times as old as any other rodent.
DQBJj TIL that the legs of the 630 foot 192 m) Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO had to be built with a 1/64” (0.4 mm) tolerance so that they would meet at the top. Several filmmakers documented the entire construction in hope that the legs wouldn’t meet.
xVKvD TIL that the cheapest and cleanest means of transport for scientists in the Antarctica is a tent on a sled powered by a giant Kite