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TIL that the world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold. This gold is dispersed throughout the oceans in tiny particles and is not currently economically feasible to extract. The total value of this gold is estimated to be around $771 trillion, which is nearly 10 times the current global GDP.

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oRZNR TIL: Agent Orange was produced by Uniroyal Canada in Elmira, Ont., a small farming community just outside Waterloo.
Ldvv TIL in 2009, a woman filed suit against PepsiCo after discovering that the crunchberries in a Cap'n Crunch cereal had not in fact been real fruit. The case was thrown out, with the judge remarking that to do otherwise would “ignore all concepts of personal responsibility and common sense”.
7OdZ TIL Socrates (469-399 B.C.) criticized the youth of his time for overindulging in luxuries and disrespecting their parents
nDLb TIL Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a piece of fabric from the left wing of the Wright Brothers’ 1903 Flyer to the moon aboard the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969.
8am9a TIL Historically, Native American communities conducted a salmon ceremony where they showed respect to the first caught salmon by sharing it with everyone in the community, cleaning its skeleton and returning it to the river where it could return to its kin and tell of the respect it received.