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TIL that the Emperor Vespasian issued out a tax on urine collected from public toilets

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awDo0 TIL that for $50,000 USD, you can harvest a dog's DNA to create a genetically identical embryo, aka Cloning.
RjB4 TIL that the 100 richest people on earth have an accumulated wealth of 2.09 trillion USD. If they were a country, it would be the 13th richest country on the globe, just beneath Italy and above South Korea.
VBPm TIL that 35 million years ago, with the force of millions of nuclear weapons, an asteroid slammed into earth instantly turning the ground below it into diamonds
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