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TIL gold is created by two neutron stars colliding

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MeKnV TIL In 1898, Nikola Tesla tricked an entire crowd into believing they could control a boat by shouting commands – in fact he invented Radio Control and piloted the boat himself.
wLXZM TIL the Berlin Wall is now gone for as long as it stood: 28 years
WKOY TIL the Soviet Union promoted junk science to such an extent that it spawned a new word - “Lysenkoism” - which is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological basis.
8epBZ TIL China and India have been the population centers of the world for at least 6,000 years
8eLDb TIL about someone who predicted a merger and brought the relevant domain and now wants to sell it and fund his education. He is now being sued.