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TIL the last time olympic medals were made of pure gold was 1912, now a gold medal only needs to be covered with 6 grams of pure gold

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9Ypb7 TIL of Colma, California, a city for the dead. 1500 aboveground residents and 1.5 million underground. Colma’s official motto is, “It’s Great to Be Alive in Colma.”
OGQWg TIL Frank Zappa told Alice Cooper to come audition for his record label at 7:00. Alice Cooper misunderstood and showed up at 7:00AM, which impressed Frank Zappa enough to sign them two three album deal.
X0DDj TIL during the Apollo 16 lunar mission in 1972, the crew brought a lunar rock first collected by Apollo 12 in 1969 BACK to the moon as part of a magnetic field experiment. The rock ended up travelling back and forth between moon and Earth twice.
4Xwdg TIL The entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles
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