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TIL: Gold has been worth more than platinum since late 2014.

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NXEAM TIL The song "My Mammy" famously sung by Al Jolson in the first talkie film "The Jazz Singer"in 1927, was first sung in 1918 as a vaudeville act by William Frawley, who later became a star in the TV show "I Love Lucy".
OGbnR TIL Mel Blanc, who voiced most of the Looney Tunes characters, was in a coma after a car accident in 1961. Calling his name did nothing to wake him up. After 14 days in the coma, a doctor asked Mel “Bugs, can you hear me?” He woke up from the coma, and responded as Bugs Bunny, “Yeah, what’s up doc?”
x6pa5 TIL New Zealand is the only country that’s allowed to put Hobbit-related images on their currency
nWXMG TIL no one listens to the victims, especially when it's a child, until it's too late - and society makes the wrong people famous... A PARENTING ADVICE BLOGGER posted videos laughing over the fact she denied her children food TO PUNISH THEM and was AWARE 1 child was sexually abusing siblings?!
PkvZ TIL there is a tiny British colony in the Pacific with so many pedophiles that the no one under the age of 16 can go there without prior authorization