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TIL: The average human poops $13 in precious metals per year

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xVJLw TIL Robert Devereux once burst in on Elizabeth I before she had had the chance to change out of her nightgown and put on her wig and makeup. For this, he got grounded until further notice.
9YMjr TIL Eric Clapton gifted Geogre Harrison a unique red Gibson Les Paul that he nicknamed “Lucy”. It was stolen in 1973, and after tracking it down, Harrison had to trade another Les Paul and a Fender Bass to get it back. Until his death in 2001, Harrison referred to the incident as a “kidnapping”
x6yV7 TIL that a rocket engine startup company's plan for using mercury propellant to launch satellites ended up getting the UN global ban
R5Rd9 TIL Wales and Pennsylvania are two ends of the same coal deposit. Known as the "Transatlantic Seam" it was split by millions of years of continental drift
GXyQ TIL that when the last woolly mammoths died out, the pyramids of Giza were already a thousand years old