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

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x690b TIL before Ford discontinued the Fiesta, they made more profit from licensing LEGO than from the compact car.
5Yngk TIL of an island called "Inaccessible Island" named for the difficulty in landing on the island and penetrating its interior because of the rough terrain, located in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean.
kOWA1 TIL in 10th-20th century Europe, there was a hated, segregated minority group called Cagots who couldn't marry or live near non-cagots, couldn't touch food & had to use separate church entrances/holy water, despite being the same race as their neighbors. It isnt clear how the segregation started
4kE8R TIL for Hawaiians, water (wai) symbolizes life. The Hawaiian word for prosperity or wealth, is 'waiwai', literally means 'water-water'. Many names in Hawaiian have the word 'wai' in it, referring to the water source that the people relied on at that time.
v1mZK TIL of Masaniello, an ordinary fisherman in Naples, who in 1647, organized a revolt against the government in a single day over a newly imposed fruit tax, and was declared by the people and Duke himself as “captain-general” of Naples... only to be assassinated 9 days later.