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TIL that the total mass of the entire asteroid belt is only about 4% of the mass of Earth's Moon

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woLGM TIL about the silver fox domestication experiment which resulted in silver foxes having more dog like appearances
4XyZX TIL there was a plan to make a movie about The Marx Brothers causing havoc at the United Nations in New York. It was to be directed by Billy Wilder ("The Apartment", "Some Like it Hot", ... )
W7Eo9 TIL that a Photographer was rewarded 1.2 Million USD because a Bird Control Company used his Picture of a Dove without Permission although the Company had hired him for the Picture in the first place. They had continued to use it anyway outside the original contractual Purpose.
xV57o TIL students in competitions to design fuel-efficient vehicles routinely design vehicles capable of travelling THOUSANDS of miles per gallon of gas.
4wDa TIL the day after liberation, a group of 40 prisoners from Buchenwald tracked down one of the escaped guards in a nearby town, brought him back to camp, and made him hang himself