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TIL that whale’s vomit is worth $5,000+ per pound.

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LZD0 TIL that around half of the USA’s nuclear arsenal is inside of 14 submarines.
WkZmX TIL about a teacher called Osamu Mizutani who for 14 years patrolled the streets at night trying to persuade Japanese youth hanging around the streets to return to regular life while also responding to calls and emails.
DQDvv TIL about the Graham's number. It is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies one Planck volume, the smallest measurable space. The last 13 digits are ...7262464195387
ZpMPD TIL Up until 2014, the semi-fictional location of the Yakuza game series (神室町) had its own pseudo-radio station with the protagonists' original voice actors for moderators
lodKG TIL the last two fluent speakers of the ancient dying language Ayapaneco aren’t talking to each other. Manuel Segovia, 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69, only live 500 metres apart in a small village in Tabasco but refuse to speak as they can’t stand each other’s company.