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

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AD9Jx TIL That malaria has killed more than half of all humans since they were created.
Zyeo TIL that Jenny’s phone number, 867-5309, is not only a prime number, but also a double prime and a member of a primitive Pythagorean triple
LkoNd TIL that white Harvard student and seminarian Jonathon Daniels traveled to the south to fight against segregation and later died shielding a black girl from a special county deputy's gunfire.He was later made a martyr.
xxao TIL that a tool shop owner paid $100 for a locked abandoned storage unit, only to find the Lotus Esprit submarine prop from The Spy Who Loved Me inside. He sold it to Elon Musk for $825,000.
p8MMO TIL The US national anthem, 'The star spangled banner', is notoriously difficult to sing which is why it often sounds terrible. However, this is also the reason it's so powerful when sung by a talented singer.