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TIL in all history people have only taken ~200k tons of gold out of the earth. To compare, when Edmund Fitzgerald went down with 26k tons of iron, it was one of dozens such freighters that's moves that much iron every single day the Great Lakes shipping lanes are open, a fraction of daily worldwide

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VMjGG TIL an Australian man suffered a sudden and severe form of meningitis at age 29, resulting in a 420-day coma, brain damage, paralysis and later death. The meningitis was caused by a parasite that entered his body 8 years prior after he ate a slug for a dare.
Q1kX TIL: the 19th amendment was ratified due to one vote, cast by Harry Burn. He was originally against women’s sufferage, until he received a letter from his mother.
9YrMr TIL The programming language Python is named after the BBC show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and has nothing to do with reptiles.
GAkL7 TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. The university was founded in 1096, over 300 years before the founding of the Aztec Empire in 1428.
DQmeY TIL that watermelons are technically classified as berries. They are a type of pepo, which is a berry with a tough outer shell, and contain many seeds.