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TIL, as of February 2021, the U.S. Mint had 147 million troy ounces of gold on reserve at Fort Knox, 54 million at West Point, and 44 million in Denver.

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4kAAR TIL director Kevin Smith attended a protest at the debut of his own movie, "Dogma" (1999), and was interviewed by the local news station.
yLye TIL Vin Diesel got his first acting role when he was 7. He and some friends broke into a New York theater to vandalize it. The theater’s artistic director confronted them, and instead of calling the police, handed them scripts and offered them parts in the upcoming show.
RxMl TIL that Mongolian horse archers, back in 1200 AD, could “slide down the side of their horse to shield their body from enemy arrows, while simultaneously holding their bow under the horse’s chin and returning fire, all at full gallop.” These guys were unreal.
DQaDg TIL the authorship of a 1724 book called A General History of the Pyrates containing biographies of contemporary pirates has remained unknown in spite of numerous attempts by historians to discover his identity.
4Z5R TIL people in the Soviet Union were so terrified to be the first to stop clapping after Stalin speeches that applause once went on for 11 minutes straight. The man who finally was first to stop was imprisoned for ten years.