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TIL That Australia has 31% of the worlds uranium supply.

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0dy8v TIL of the Turpan water system, an ancient network of thousands of hand dug wells and 5000 km of underground canals built under the Taklaman desert to channel groundwater to the Oasis city of Turpan, used to irrigate agriculture and provide water to the many caravans traveling the Silk Road.
7rXAM TIL there was a rumor that that there was an exclusive, powerful black card that American Express offers, having worked with Amex before, comedian Jerry Seinfeld called up the President of Amex and asked him it. Turns out there wasn't one after all, so they made one and made Jerry the first holder
AN8bn TIL while filming the Bond film "Goldfinger" (1964), the re-creation of the Fort Knox repository was incredibly accurate and looked so real that a 24-hour guard was placed on the set at Pinewood Studios so that pilferers would not steal the gold bar props.
QJ0MX TIL that the last thylacine died in 1936, and, due to the fact that the zoo expected to find a replacement, they did not bother to keep records of the animal. In fact, its gender was only determined in 2011 by a team of researchers looking frame-by-frame at a video of it.
d8ryB TIL that the MRI of dogs’ brains show that they see their owners as family and prioritize the smell of humans over everything