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TIL that the Wu-Tang Clan released a secret album, of which they only made one copy. It is cased in silver and nickel and sits in a vault in Morocco. It runs $5 million.

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WkxA4 TIL the infamous "Elephant's Foot", representing a mass of radioactive corium that formed at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, will remain radioactive for 100,000 years.
D15ke TIL the streets of London were once paved in gold: fool's gold. Martin Frobisher shipped over a thousand tons of fool's gold from what's now Canada to London under the impression he was shipping gold ore. When it was later discovered it was no more than iron pyrite to use it for road metalling.
epNO6 TIL philosopher Joseph Levine’s 1983 paper introduced the “explanatory gap” noting while “Pain is the firing of C fibers” is physiologically valid, it doesn’t make us understand how pain feels. Showing the challenge physicalists face in connecting physical properties to subjective experiences.
W74j8 TIL that out of the 13 official Disney Princesses, only Tiana from The Princess and the Frog was born in the United States. She was born around 1910 in New Orleans. While Pocahontas was born around 1596 in what is now Virginia, the United States didn’t exist at the time.
69LR7 TIL Most fans assume Imagine Dragons' 'Radioactive' is about a post apocalyptic world. But lyrics writer Dan Reynolds revealed in '21 it was actually about waking up in a new world after losing his faith in Mormonism.