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TIL gold on Earth came from colliding neutron stars

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g8VA TIL that, over the course of the Civil War, due to poor financial choices, the Confederacy experienced inflation rates of (literally) over 9000%.
EgPDX TIL Benjamin Franklin had proposed a phonetic alphabet for spelling reform of the English language. He wanted to omit the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, as he had found them redundant.
NXAa6 TIL of Primula Niven, wife of Hollywood actor David Niven, who died from a 'hide-and-seek game' accident at Tyrone Power's Hollywood mansion. Also in attendance that evening were Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and Caesar Romero.
xVwZB TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.
xyJ7 TIL a man robbed a bank by pretending to be a public health official and giving a fatal dose of cyanide to all 16 people in the bank under the pretense of a routine dysentery innoculation