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TIL the vast majority of Earth’s gold and platinum is found in its core. The reason these elements are so rare on the surface is because they mostly sunk to the core when the planet was molten.

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nL7r TIL A female executor may be referred to as an executrix
xBBB TIL 14-year-old kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck, while being held captive, Googled himself and found the website his parents set up for his search. He left an anonymous message there – “How long are you planning to look for your son?” – but no one knew he had been the author until after his rescue.
lGQG TIL Hans Zimmer wrote the score for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar based off a one page letter about “what it means to be a father.”
neZ8b TIL: Before the year 2000 problem, caused by storing only 2 digits for the year, there was the year 1970 problem because only one digit was stored for years from 1960 to 1969
9OXM TIL that a cabbie told Bill Murray that he was frustrated that he drove 14 hours a day and didn’t have enough time to practice playing his saxaphone. So Bill Murray drove the cab while the cabbie sat in the back and practiced.