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TIL lead can and has been turned into gold through a process called nuclear transmutation, but the expenses of the procedure far exceed any gain from the value of the resulting gold.

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DAg TIL that Jesse Owens said “Hitler didn’t snub me–it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram,” and that Owens was cheered enthusiastically by 110,000 people in Berlin, but couldn’t even stay in the same hotels as whites in America.
7e8O TIL that Vermont abolished slavery in 1777, while still an independent nation. This means Vermont was both the first state, and the first nation in the Americas to abolish the institution of slavery.
N7Z8N TIL that Leonard Nimoy broke into the music scene in the late 60's. One of his most popular songs was about Bilbo Baggins.
OoGD1 TIL During the California Gold Rush a Chinese laundry man named John-John washed enough gold dust out of pants cuffs and shirttails of miners to set himself up for life.
9YkjB TIL about Melanesia Sergeant Major Jacob Vouza who was captured by the Japanese, hung from a tree and beaten with rifles, tied to a red ant hill, bayonetted seven times in the chest and once in the throat, but still managed to chew through his restraints and deliver news of the impending attack