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TIL gold is so rare that the world pours more steel every hour than it has poured gold since the beginning of recorded history.

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kOm7B TIL that 63 years after its launch on March 17, 1958, Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite still orbiting Earth. Weighing only 3.2 pounds and with a diameter of 6.5 inches, Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, derided it as "the grapefruit satellite".
mxPJP TIL That King County, Washington, home of Seattle, has a logo that's MLK Jr's face with the county's name underneath
GA76G TIL A man named Laurence Vonderdell robbed a bank in Dorset, England, with a banana wrapped in an orange plastic bag that he pretended was a gun and escaped with £1,100 worth of £20 notes.
5VAKk TIL about Rượu thuốc, Vietnamese "medicinal liquor" made by soaking dead snakes in alcohol. Men drink it to improve health & "virility."
4Xde5 TIL that American singer and songwriter Lady Gaga has a genus of 19 species of ferns named after her.