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TIL that the doctor who helped deliver Dolly Parton was paid, by her father, with a bag of cornmeal

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9YlmM TIL it's estimated that 16% of the world's gold and 22% of the world's silver is contained in Japan's electronics alone- so much that Japan is asking its citizens to donate old electronics to make the Olympic medals.
ADBww TIL: In the 1800s, Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer set out to write an ambitious guide to all the nations on Earth. She had never set foot outside Shropshire. She was horribly misinformed about virtually every topic she turned her attention to. And she was prejudiced against foreigners.
yQeA8 TIL Dave Grohl has tried to live as frugally as possible after watching his mother have a stroke while filing her taxes
wnpJ TIL There was a homeless man who survived being intentionally fed Antifreeze, Turpentine, Rat poison, being left in -14 degree weather and hit by a taxi in a life insurance scam. His nickname became “Mike the Durable”
p8NeZ TIL Tom Hanks’ 2 closest companions are both named Wilson.