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TIL 95% of all copper ever mined was extracted after 1900. More than half has been extracted in the last 24 years.

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5YpR TIL on this day in 1977 (15/08/1977) a signal was received on the Big Ear Telescope in Ohio that is thought to be from outside our Solar System. No signal of this type has been received before or since this.
5ZAn TIL MGMT was offered 1€ after the French UMP party used “Kids” without copyright permission. They settled for 30,000€.
6ExMZ TIL that 99.8% of all matter that exists in our solar system is the Sun. Which means all things on the earth, that makes up the earth and all other planets and moons only make up 0.2%
eppM4 TIL that Milwaukee does actually translate to "The Good Land", but not in Algonquin
lWka TIL about Thalaikoothal, the ritual euthanasia of the elderly by forced consumption of water until renal failure still practiced in the Tamil state in India