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TILThere is enough gold at the core of the earth to cover the surface of the planet in 12’ to 13’ depth.

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7pJb TIL Will Wright, designer of SimCity 2000, said that the game does not actually reticulate splines when generating terrain, and he just inserted the phrase because it “sounded cool.”
Qena TIL when a US Navy ship returns from deployment the first sailors allowed off the ship are sailors whose wives gave birth while they were away
Kbbw TIL 1 in 4 Greenlanders attempt suicide once in their lifetime
d8WaB TIL: 60,000 deaths can be attributed to CIA Operation Condor. Victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerillas [...] in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.
e0EwE TIL microwave ovens do not cook food from the "inside out." When thick foods are cooked, the outer layers are heated and cooked primarily by microwaves while the inside is cooked mainly by the conduction of heat from the hot outer layers.