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TIL gold on Earth came from colliding neutron stars

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4WKg TIL A 66-year-old hiker, who became lost on the Appalachian Trail, kept a journal documenting her 26-day ordeal before succumbing to lack of food and exposure. In one entry, she pleaded “When you find my body, please call my husband and daughter.”
VBlkB TIL that the United States does not have a federal law banning cannibalism. Idaho is the only state where simply committing the act lands you in prison.
6E6gw TIL The earliest e-cigarette can be traced to American Herbert A. Gilbert, who in 1963 patented "a smokeless non-tobacco cigarette" that involved "replacing burning tobacco and paper with heated, moist, flavored air". This device produced flavored steam without nicotine.
8aZDV TIL - In certain cancer cases acute secondary infection causes the immune system to destroy the cancer leaving the patient free of that cancer for life. At least one doctor named William Coley developed a therapy to recreate this scenario under controlled conditions.
JY7xV TIL that after Pearl Harbor three men were trapped deep in the USS West Virginia for 16 days which they marked on the wall of the storeroom they had found shelter in. Soldiers were unable to reach them and no one wanted guard duty near the ship due to the incessant banging of the trapped survivors.