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TIL All of the platinum ever mined could fit inside the average person’s living room

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DQAeD TIL that just before WW1 began, the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey was heard to say ominously, “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”
QNZ0E TIL that for the first time in almost 300 years, Europe currently has no reigning female monarch
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