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TIL most of the gold ever mined is still in circulation today. That gold ring or watch that you’re wearing, could have been from several ancient-historic figures such as Cleopatra or Alexander the Great

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awj6M TIL an Australian guy shot his mate dead so he could steal his mates' $40000 worth of honey
D1eLe TIL Jeff Bezos funded a team that searched the Atlantic Ocean for discarded NASA rockets. By 2013, the team salvaged two rockets. After careful inspection, the team realized they found part of the rockets used to carry Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon on Apollo 11.
neZb9 TIL Napoleon divorced his wife, Josephine, due to her being unable to produce an heir. However, he insisted she retain the Empress title and they remained on good terms. Napoleon's last words before dying were, "France, the Army, the Head of the Army, Joséphine."
Z8GaQ TIL that the beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
D1Q8D TIL - The stormtrooper, who was mindtricked by Rey, was Daniel Craig