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TIL gold on Earth came from colliding neutron stars

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gDbL TIL that the origins of driving on the left side go back to Medieval England where Knights would ride their horses on the left side of the road so if they encountered an enemy their sword hand would be on the correct side - nearly all countries that drive on the left now were once English colonies
pYwAZ TIL that during WWI, conductor Karl Muck, a German-born Swiss citizen and conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was interned as an enemy alien for more than a year and deported. He had been falsely accused of refusing to play the National Anthem before a concert.
BrBoK TIL there is a tree in Athens, Georgia that is thought to have legal ownership of itself.
4k1xg Til that the 6th century Architect Anthemius persecuted his neighbour and rival Zenon by reflecting sunlight into Zenon's house and by faking earthquakes there with underground steam pipes.
vPMmB TIL that Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. An Olympic gold medalist; his personal best of 2.45 m (8 ft 1⁄4 in) makes him the only person ever to have cleared eight feet (2.4 m).