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TIL That the Bank of England only owns two of the ~400,000 gold bars in its vaults.

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9Yynp TIL Michael Jackson's "bad" Music Video Was Directed by Martin Scorsese
KYWBE Today I learned that only Australians and New Zealanders still say ‘Hip-Hip Hooray’ after singing Happy Birthday.
oKr TIL if you make at least $34,000 a year you are among the richest 1% of the world
x7jw TIL a chimpanzee named Frodo has impregnated his own mother, killed a human infant, attacked cartoonist Gary Larson, and beat the head of primatologist Jane Goodall so badly, he almost broke her neck.
OGLKg TIL for decades, Marian Breland Bailey and her husband(s) trained animals to do tricks for fun and profit—piano-playing ducks, tic-tac-toe-playing chickens, dolphins for the Navy, cats for the CIA—and ended up pioneering a more humane approach to animal training.