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TIL The world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold!

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4Xmga TIL... The dumbo octopus looks like the Disney elephant and uses it's ear-like flaps to swim.
mdvY TIL that President Roosevelt briefly used a limousine seized from Al Capone because the secret service was concerned that the existing presidential limo wasn’t sufficiently armored.
ep4L5 TIL "Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks video was banned due to a outro in which the wife gets ready to shoot the cheating husband.
OoOPL TIL Nazis built a concentration camp on the isle of Alderney in the British isles
69Rb7 TIL a Dutch court ordered a 41-year-old man, who judges said had fathered between 550-600 children, to stop donating sperm. The court considered it “sufficiently plausible” that the children has or could have negative psychosocial consequences including problems around identity & fears of incest.