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Today I learned that there are two golf balls on the moon

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7r9Rr TIL Russia first tried to sell Alaska to the tiny state of Liechtenstein, who declined the offer, before selling it to America.
16vgO TIL: The ‘Atoms For Peace’ program, intended to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear power, led to multiple countries developing nuclear weapons
AN9gl TIL that Vodafone paid over 185 billion euros in stock to purchase German company Mannesmann at the peak of the telecommunications bubble in 2000. Vodafone today has a market cap of around 22 billion euros.
j6Z9j TIL that the work of composer Antonio Vivaldi was almost completely lost until the 20th century, when violinist Fritz Kreisler published one of his own pieces as a fake "Vivaldi". This prompted a major resurgence in academic interest in Vivaldi, and his "Four Seasons" is now especially famous.
byE0 TIL that virtually all gold mined on the Earth was left behind by meteorite impacts.