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TIL that virtually all gold mined on the Earth was left behind by meteorite impacts.

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b7Dp TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about a boy named Richard Parker being cannibalized on a ship. Decades later, a boy by that same name was eaten by his crew mates when they became stranded at sea.
b9BlN TIL that birds can see the Earth's magnetic field due to the presence of a protein in their retina called Cryptochrome(Cryp4)
a80KZ TIL in 400 BCE Persian engineers created a ice machine in the desert.
1x04 TIL Stephen Hawking’s birthday (January 8, 1942) is the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.
xVpGg TIL 10% of all people over the age of 60 have Alzheimer's disease, and as many as 50% of people over 85 have it. The number of people with the disease doubles every 5 years beyond age 65.