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TIL King Auletes of Egypt (Ptolemy XII), paid Caesar 6,000 talents to be named "Friend and Ally of Rome". In 2018 that was roughly equivalent to $8,400,699,422.80 USD.

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VBBL8 TIL of the use of "Trap Crops", secondary crops planted with the purpose of blocking or diverting insects/parasites off the main crop. In some cases, even decoys made of plastic or carboard can be helpful to disrupt insects.
6PQ8 TIL When asked what was the speed of sound Albert Einstein said: “[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books.”
rRamd TIL of Operation Pastorius, a German WWII mission of sabotage inside the United States. It failed primarily due to defections, but was in danger of being compromised right from the start as one of the agents, when drunk, announced to patrons at a bar in Paris that he was a secret agent.
R7ea TIL of Jambo, a silverback gorilla that, in 1986, protected an unconscious young boy who fell into the enclosure at Jersey zoo from the other, hostile gorillas
N7JWP TIL that a government funded Minecraft Replica of Denmark, intended for educational purposes, was bombed several times by American hackers using smuggled in game dynamite, after which they planted several US flags on detonation sites.