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TIL Girl Scout Cookies sells $800 million worth of cookies every year!

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LkJd TIL: The World Population margin of error is 56 million. Statistically speaking, Australia and New Zealand may be entirely uninhabited.
D1LrY TIL Mongolian shepherds use female golden eagles to defend against wolves.
QJodk TIL there's a Japanese children's book called "Chirin no Suzu" (Chirin's Bell) about a lamb seeking revenge for a wolf killing his mother. The story is based on the author's (Takashi Yanase) experiences in World War 2. A film adaptation of the book was made in 1978 by Sanrio.
P1pbG TIL - Spanish archeologist Eliseo Gil Zubillaga in 2006 anounce the discovery of inscriptions on some pieces from the III-V century, in which you could see figures of daily life, a cross of Christ, mythological characters, hieroglyphics and texts in Latin, Greek and Basque wich resulted to be fake.
KDg6 TIL an Indian businessman had 15 goldsmiths working for 15 days to construct him a shirt made out of solid gold which cost $230,888.