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TIL gold on Earth came from colliding neutron stars
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TIL The world’s largest convenience store (67,000sqft) has 120 gas pumps, 83 Bathroom stalls, and 23 flavors of fudge.
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TIL a man known only as "Django" drove his own boat out & freed a whale caught in a shark net off an Australian beach (without cutting the net). Before taking action, Django had waited hours for help from officials who had been called; when officials arrived, he faced a fine for acting alone.
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TIL that Thomas Edison really couldn't stand Mathematics. He struggled getting through Newton's Principia Mathematica and so made it a priority to hire mathematicians.
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TIL In the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, Britain had to use one third of its entire national budget to buy all the slaves so that they could be freed.
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TIL the Florida School for Boys, a reform school shut down in 2011, gained a reputation for abuse, beatings, rapes, torture, and even murder of students by staff. 50 unmarked and undocumented graves have been located on the property using radar.