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

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PYGjE TIL The Prime Minister of Canada doesn't have to be a member of parliament, but does need a seat to participate. In the 1925 election Liberal Party leader William Lyon Mackenzie King lost his seat while his party won and "governed from the hallway" before winning a by-election a few weeks later.
NXPye TIL that a bolt of lightning is four times hotter than the surface of the sun
5VOWD TIL Tootsie Roll Industries produces a giant one-pound version of a Sugar Daddy which has 1928 kcal.
XXOQ TIL Keith Moon hated drum solos and refused to play them in concert. At one show, Townshend and Entwistle decided to spontaneously stop playing to hear Moon’s drum solo. Moon stopped too, shouting “Drum solos are boring!”
ep4x5 TIL the "dirt" under your fingernails is most commonly the keratin debris from the underside of the nail, as well as skin cells from the nail bed.