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TIL that Spacex's yearly revenue from Starlink is almost 15 times larger than its NASA contracts and in 10 years, Spacex has launched nearly 9000 starlink satellites.

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0dmRv TIL that "Sky burial" is a practice where bodies are left on mountainsides for scavenger birds or natural decomposition, considered practical in high-altitude areas where the ground is too hard to dig.
wJN6 TIL that during the filming of Blade: Trinity, Wesley Snipes smoked weed all day long. After calling the director a racist and trying to strangle him, he would only communicate with the director through post-it notes signing them, “From Blade”
NX681 TIL Former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe's motorcade was infamous for driving wrecklessly and causing repeated fatalities through the years. Locals referred to it as "Bob Mugabe and the Wailers"
1aRWO TIL in December 1982, when Paul Allen was sick with cancer, he overheard Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer discussing his lack of contributions and how to dilute his equity by offering stock options to other employees and shareholders. Allen confronted them and quit a little bit later.
DR9j TIL Antibiotic resistance could lead to over 10 million death per year which could make it a bigger problem than cancer