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

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vPvn8 TIL Playboy's founder Hugh Hefner is buried in the crypt right next to Playboy's first centerfold, Marilyn Monroe.
PY7PO TIL New Zealand’s biggest export sector is its agriculture but its farmers, unlike US and EU farmers, receive zero government subsidies.
5Y9mn TIL that the World Chess Federation rearranges tournament matchups so that Iranians never have to play Israelis, because Iran does not recognize the existence of Israel
GYaPN TIL of the traditional "Honors of War", where surrendering armies would leave the battlefield with banners waving honorably and their band playing the enemy's anthem. After winning the American Revolution, George Washington famously refused to allow the British to play an American or French song
ADv77 TIL William Peter Blatty won 5-thousand dollars while appearing on the game show, 'Your Bet your Life', in the 1950's. He said he would use the money to take some time off and write a novel. He went on to write, 'The Exorcist.'