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TIL North Korea is sitting on $6 trillion in mineral resources.

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6RG7 TIL that in the 1870s, a woman named Nellie Cashman organized and led a party of six to take 1500 lbs of supplies to 26 miners stranded in the B.C. mountains by a snowstorm, after the Canadian Army refused to act because it was too dangerous.
N7avQ TIL NASA gave away hundreds of trees that have been to the moon. They never kept track of who they gave them to. Now they are trying to find them. One was at the White House.
QVKa TIL that artist Piero Manzoni created Artists’ Shit, 90 tin cans containing 30 grams of feces, as a mockery to the art world, then sold them for $37 dollars each. They’re now worth upwards of $100000 each.
yY1J TIL $44B of gift cards have gone unclaimed since 2008
VB0Pm TIL Peter Norman, the Australian silver medalist photographed in the iconic 1968 Olympics photo alongside two black athletes with a raised fist wore a badge in support of their protest, and turned down a lucrative job offer during the 2000 Sydney Olympics because he refused to renounce his actions.