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TIL there is enough gold on Earth for every person to own about five gold rings.

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a8ARo TIL that Eddie Murphy, Danny DeVito, Chevy Chase, Bill Cosby. John Cleese, John Candy, Steve Martin, Jeff Goldblum and John Lithgow were all considered for the part of Doc Brown in Back To The Future.
Jvam TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Character. “..Her mother was in tears, just crying. She said that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.”
ADOl4 TIL the Jerusalem artichoke has no relationship to Jerusalem and is not an artichoke.
46na TIL: Violence has steadily declined over the course of human history, and we are currently in the midst of the most peaceful era yet.
4X0Zb TIL that in 1904 an elephant named Alice escaped from Coney Island and was found by startled fishermen near Staten Island, a six-mile swim away