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TIL of a millionaire that hid treasure somewhere in the Rockie Mountains and gave several clues in a poem, four people have died looking for it

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b0AZ TIL Ibn Al-Haytham, a Muslim physicist and scientist that lived during the Golden Age of Islam, is credited with the creation of the scientific method that has became the basis of Western science today.
nWjNB TIL that employees at N.A.S.A. smoked on average 29 cigarettes a day before the first moon landing.
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