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TIL In 2013 a couple walking their dog in California found 8 coffee cans containing over 1,427 gold coins worth over $10 million. The original source of the hoard is still unknown.

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aJA TIL That physicists won the Nobel prize in 2010 for peeling graphene off pencils with scotch tape
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