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TIL Einstein’s Brain went missing and was found 23 years later

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OVWX TIL that in order to match the Walmart Heirs’ fortune, you’d need to work there for 7 Million Years.
wOJE TIL the reason for sightings of Bloody Mary, is because of something called the ‘Caputo effect’
0bPy TIL: WHen Ford was first creating the Model T’s, a lot of the car was made out of wood. With so much wood scrap, Ford discovered a use for all the waste wood: Charcoal briquettes. Eventually, Ford Charcoal was renamed after a relative of his: Kingsford.
0wlRM TIL that due to the high amounts of selenium in Brazil Nuts, it takes only around 140 nuts to cause death by poisoning.
E1AeW TIL that there are 153 million orphaned children in the world. This number slightly falls below Russia's population statistics and above Mexico's. Therefore, it would be safe to say that if a country was to be set aside for orphans, it would rank the 9th most populated.