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TIL Gold can be created in a laboratory, but it is dangerously radioactive.

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JY0VQ TIL that suppressing your emotions is physically unhealthy, greatly increasing your risk of premature death and cancer. So cry, scream, let it out. You'll thank yourself eventually.
dJ5j TIL (1940) Niels Bohr dissolved two 23-karat gold Nobel prize medals in three parts hydrochloric acid and one part nitric acid and hid it from the invading Nazis. In 1952 the medals were restruck and returned to their owners.
R71ra TIL the term "butterfly effect" in chaos theory might have its origins in a 1952 Ray Bradbury short story. In it, a time-traveler travels back 66 million years where he accidentally crushes a butterfly, resulting in an altered timeline observed upon his return.
gMMv7 TIL about a pizza delivery man that was kidnapped and forced to rob a bank while wearing an explosive collar. It blew it.
8eR7K TIL that Coretta Scott King graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and was a classically trained singer who gave Freedom Concerts to raise money for the Civil Rights Movement.