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TIL: The dollar value of a human life
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TIL - Cochlear Implants have Bluetooth, An App and can function like Earbuds.
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TIL in 1964, a General Mills employee chopped pieces of Circus Peanuts (banana flavoured-marshmallow candy) into a bowl of cheerios, thus leading to the invention of Lucky Charms cereal.
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TIL a service dog bit 911 into a cellphone after her owner collapsed from a seizure. She became the first canine recipient of the VITA Wireless Samaritan Award, given to someone who used a cell phone to save a life.
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TIL that the world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold. This gold is dispersed throughout the oceans in tiny particles and is not currently economically feasible to extract. The total value of this gold is estimated to be around $771 trillion, which is nearly 10 times the current global GDP.
nAD7
TIL in 1995, McDonald’s asked Greenpeace activists to stop criticizing their company publicly and instead do it only in private with their friends. Activists said they’d agree if McDonald’s stopped advertising its products and instead only recommended their restaurants privately to friends.