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TIL That a Paypal Error Led to The World’s First “Quadrillionaire”

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KJEE TIL in WWII the Japanese sent over 9000 “Fire Balloons”, carrying varying payloads of bombs across the pacific to the United States through the use of a jet stream. An estimated 900 of these balloons are believed to have reached North America.
v1EoB TIL Saffron is the most expensive food on earth, costing ~5,000 USD per pound. It is so expensive due to the fact that it has to be harvested manually, and takes between 50,000-75,000 flowers to produce just one pound of the spice.
Y7DGG TIL Bruce's Springsteen's 13th album Devils and Dust releases in 2005 was his first and only album to have a parental advisory label. The label was used for the "adult imagery" in the song Reno where the character in the song visits a sex worker.
b4lE TIL that whales can have up to 14 extra spleens. These extra spleens help oxygenate the blood of deeper diving whales.
pNLe TIL the population of Ireland still hasn’t recovered from the famine of 1845-1852. It was at 8 million before the famine and is at 4.5 million today.