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TIL you can monitor the location of every large ship in the world, in real-time

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EbX TIL there is enough gold on Earth for every person to own about five gold rings.
pBJO TIL King Peggy is a secretary in DC who was made “King” of her village in Ghana, kept her job and is massively improving life for her subjects after cleaning up corruption
gMk5y TIL that in Tang Dynasty China (600s-900s AD), women wearing men's clothing was a fashion trend. Normally a taboo in China, it was made acceptable by the Li Clan's (the Imperial Family's) women- notably Princess Pingyang- who actually commanded armies during the Dynasty's foundational wars.
QJNka TIL that a man built and planted an extremely complex bomb in a Nevada Casino - the FBI could not disarm it, and the controlled detonation blew up most of the Casino.
lXK1 TIL A 2008 study found that fast food hamburgers were made up of only 12% meat. The rest was water weight, bone, cartilage, plant matter, and parasites.