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

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b96DN TIL Christopher Nolan had a cornfield grown for the farm scenes in Interstellar, he later sold the corn for a profit.
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b6LJN TIL that in 1907 French waiters went on strike for better pay, more time off - and the right to grow mustaches. At the time, lower-class workers were forbidden to have facial hair.
ne1Gd TIL that the dogma of Immaculate Conception refers not to how Mary became pregnant with Jesus but to the assertion that Mary herself was born without original sin.