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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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8YmZ TIL Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder can be recognized on people of all ages by examining several distinct facial features, such as a “smooth philtrum” (AKA lack of groove between nose & lip)
b9Xn4 TIL Ex-President Ronald Reagan occupied the 34th-floor Fox Plaza office building (where parts of "Die Hard" were shot) til 2001, breaking tradition by using a private office over a federal one. When Reagan aides toured the 34th-floor in 1989, it was littered with shells/broken glass from "Die Hard".
lyD1 TIL that there’s very specific protocol for handing out business cards in Japan. You should make sure your business cards are translated into Japanese on one side. Use both hands to pass them out with the Japanese side facing up, and accept others’ cards with both hands.
M7XbW TIL Doctors in Lithuania removed over 1 Kilo (2.2lbs) of metal objects, including screws and nails, from a man's stomach after he was admitted for abdominal pain. Some of the objects were up to 10cm (4in) long. The man claimed he started eating the metal after quitting alcohol a month prior.
Z8BbR TIL Pope Night was an anti-Catholic holiday celebrated annually on November 5 in the colonial United States. Gang violence became part of the tradition in the 1740s, with residents of different Boston neighborhoods battling for the honor of burning the pope's effigy.