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TIL Electrum is the alloy of silver and gold, and humanity's first metal coins were made out of it.

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OMr7 TIL: The lineage of Kim Jong-Un’s mom would undermine the Kim dynasty’s pure bloodline, and her eldest who would have ruled tried to defect
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