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TIL that the Ancient Greeks considered gold to be a particularly dense combination of water and sunlight since most of it was found glinting in streams.

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WkGgA TIL Pearl Jam discovered Ticketmaster was adding a service charge to all their concert tickets without informing the band. The band then created their own outdoor stadiums for the fans and testified against Ticketmaster to the United States Department of Justice
b9X4E TIL that some DVD copies of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" include a subtitle track called "Subtitles For People Who Don’t Like The Film", which is comprised of lines from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2 which vaguely resemble what the actors are actually saying
awZNN TIL the Golden Age of Piracy, between 1650s & 1730s happened because of: more valuable cargo being shipped over vast ocean areas; reduced European navies; & corrupt officials in overseas colonies.
R5xNl TIL about the North American X-15, a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft which holds the world record for highest speed ever recorded by a crewed, powered aircraft. The X-15 reached that speed on 3 October 1967, when test pilot William J. Knight flew at Mach 6.7 (4,520 mph; 7,274 km/h).
j6pvR TIL none of the writers of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" had been to West Virginia, and they used an encyclopedia to look up facts about it. The song was mainly inspired by one writer's upbringing in Springfield, MA, but he didn't think the word "Massachusetts" was musical.