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TIL that there were coin operated vending machines in ancient greece

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9Egr TIL that there is a limit to the amount of helium left in the world. Prices for helium have gone up significantly because of the scarcity of helium left in the world.
VEY0 TIL that Alan Moore (author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta) wrote a pornographic graphic novel named Lost Girls. The three main characters were Alice from “Alice in Wonderland”, Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz” and Wendy from “Peter Pan”.
e0W85 TIL Aeschylus died by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile
5YkY9 TIL the Far Side was so significant in the 80s that when a cartoon was printed which was hard to understand, creator Gary Larsson felt the need to issue a press release expressing his regret & explaining the joke
b9Y8j TIL that more than half of the oxygen we breathe come from marine photosynthesizers like seaweed and phytoplankton.