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TIL there is a new type of snail recently discovered named after Steve Irwin named Crikey Irwiny

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j6R0R TIL Canadian 1-dollar and 2-dollar coins are called loonies and toonies.
KM4Q TIL that after the arrest of two men, it is estimated that the worldwide availability of LSD dropped by 90%
Yj9r TIL Bette Nesmith was a typist in the 1950s. She invented liquid paper because she was fed up with having to scrap a whole page due to a typo. Later she sold her company for over 40 millions.
grmW8 TIL there are more than 72,100 Americans still missing from World War II.
8e1m8 TIL The best estimates currently available suggest that around 212,582 tonnes of gold has been mined throughout history, of which around two-thirds has been mined since 1950. And since gold is virtually indestructible, this means that almost all of this metal is still around in one form or another.