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TIL The French government bombed and sunk a Greenpeace ship while it was harboured at Auckland, New Zealand. A photographer was killed, and two French agents were apprehended.

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yVlya TIL that 1 million seconds equals about 12 days, while 1 billion seconds equals almost 32 years. Likewise, a million dollars in $100 bills weighs around 22 lbs, while a billion in $100 bills weighs about 22 tons.
b6k5E TIL in 2019, NASA had investigated a claim that one of its astronauts illegally accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse while on board the International Space Station, in what is considered the first crime ever committed in space.
D1b4P TIL one of the richest families in history was a German merchant dynasty, the Fuggers. One member, Jackob Fugger (d. 1525) ranks among the wealthiest men in modern history with $400 billion, 2% of Europe's GDP. The name Fugger was originally rendered as, Fucker.
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KOpba TIL that ferrets don't exist in the wild; they're the domesticated form of the European polecat, and America's "black-footed ferret" is, in fact, actually a species of polecat.