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TIL that a ton of old mobile phones has 100 times the concentration of gold found in an actual gold mine.

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1Qlr TIL in 10th century lived Syrian poet who was attacking and rejecting Islamic (or any other religion) claims and could freely express his opinions in Arabic lands without fear of his life. In 2013, almost a thousand years after his death, a Jihadist group beheaded his statue
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eGn6 TIL the woman who invented the Fidget Spinner has made no money since it became popular.
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