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TIL All of Earth’s mineable gold came from meteorites, since the Earth’s original gold was all pulled into the core

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dDY4d TIL before working together in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick had acted together in the Broadway production of Biloxi Blues. Cameron's "Mr. Peterson" voice was Ruck's in-joke imitation of their former director Gene Saks.
xVMyg TIL that the male fig wasp mate with the females inside the fig, and before dieing inside the fruit, they chew a hole for the females to escape from the fig interior.
M7gy7 TIL that “Children” by Robert Miles was written, in part, to help reduce car accident deaths after raves.
KY6ew TIL that Australia has the Largest population of wild Camels.
R649 TIL Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was able to view his obituary before he died due to a news-outlet mishap. Due to all the horrible things he read about himself, including being called “the merchant of death”, he decided to dedicate his fortune to the creation of the Nobel Prize.