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TIL that the UK has spent more than $10m in encircling the Ecuador Embassy to prevent Assange from retreating to Ecuador where he has received political asylum

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8eEZZ TIL there is no single universally agreed scientific meaning of the word "matter". Scientifically, the term "mass" is well-defined, but "matter" can be defined in several ways.
LkL7Q TIL Mötley Crüe Front man, Vince Neil killed friend and fellow musician Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley and caused brain injury to two other people while driving drunk in 1985. Because, in Neil's own words, "that's the power of cash".
neP1r TIL that the singer Akon is launching a cryptocurrency called Akoin
Xl6k TIL that bear hair has been found in the scats of “El Jefe”, the only wild jaguar in the United States.
LQ6Km TIL that in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1987 a radiotherapy device was stolen from an abandoned hospital. The people who found it broke it open, exposing the 93 g of radioactive caesium chloride and leading to the contamination of 250 people, 20 of whom experienced radiation sickness and 4 of whom died