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TIL the International Space Station is estimated to be the most expensive thing ever built ($150 billion)

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VMXE8 TIL of the London Hammer: A man-made tool that was mysteriously found encased in a 400 million year old rock.
XERAk TIL:In January 1960, white jazz pianist Dave Brubeck canceled a twenty-five-date tour of colleges and universities across the American South after twenty-two schools had refused to allow his black bassist, Eugene Wright, to perform. He also canceled a tv show where they didn't want to show him.
mxM9O TIL Caffeine is a psychoactive drug that populates a list among others such as Alcohol, Nicotine, Cannabis, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Heroin, Ecstasy, LSD, Xanax, Fentanyl, Percocet, Psilocybe Mushrooms, and Amanita Muscaria.
XEDQR TIL Monty Python and the Holy Grail was funded in part by British rock stars including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Genesis
OGQG7 TIL for-profit bail only exists in 2 countries (US and Philippines). Elsewhere, paying money to leave pretrial detention is considered "a debt trap for poor defendants."