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TIL that Promethium is an extremely rare metal, with only about 500–600 grams naturally occurring in the earth’s crust

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LpXQ TIL that California’s largest wildfire was started by a lost hunter who had made a fire to signal rescuers, and as a result fifteen people died
9eKX TIL that the “Success Kid” helped pay for his fathers kidney transplant. Due to the fact that so many people know of the meme, they were able to raise more than $100.000 for his surgery.
jbdX TIL That when a UK autoshop mechanic saw the Google Street View car coming his way, he staged a murder scene. Police paid the shop a visit a year later after the image was finally spotted on Street View.
xVveD TIL about Joachim Rønneberg, who at 23 led a team of Norwegian saboteurs on cross country skis on a mission to destroy Hitler's chance at building an atomic bomb
b0DE TIL that Lebanon was one of only Arab countries that did not declare war on Israel after its creation and, until the early 1970s, had an armistice with Israel and was Israel’s calmest boarder.