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TIL about someone who predicted a merger and brought the relevant domain and now wants to sell it and fund his education. He is now being sued.

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15JD TIL Most of the gold that is present today in the Earth’s crust and mantle was delivered to Earth by asteroid impacts
jBQv TIL an 8ft. LEGO man labeled ‘No Real Than You Are’ washed up on a Dutch beach in 2007. Origins remain unknown.
v1nKK TIL Only about 10% can freely control the muscle that is stretching the eardrum. "Ear rumbling" is flexing the tensor tympani muscle, that makes the same noise and vibration you sometimes get when swallowing or yawning. Some people can flex it endlessly.
d8kpB TIL that Einstein hated wearing socks. In a letter to his wife he said that the reason he stopped wearing them was because his big toe always ended up making a hole in them.
k4EE TIL that German Stalingrad veterans would often break their infantry assault badges as an indication that earning the assault badge in Stalingrad was a different level of achievement than earning it somewhere else