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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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6EBpZ TIL Suzuki Hayabusa, the fastest bike ever when introduced, was named so after the peregrine falcon, which can dive at up to 300 km/h (close to the bikes top speed), and also because it preys on blackbirds, also the name of the then fastest bike the Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird.
W7rZX TIL that Fish and Wildlife purposefully introduced gemsbok oryx to New Mexico for exotic game hunting in 1969. Ninety three were released between 1969 and 1977, with their current population being around 3,000. They are considered invasive and are having a negative effect on the environment.
DQG4V TIL that Stanley Kubrick had a full-size replica of the Overlook Hotel's Colorado Lounge built on a soundstage in England for The Shining (1980) and intentionally designed it with impossible architecture and spatial inconsistencies to subtly unnerve the audience
XEMdk TIL Ken Jeong would add little inside jokes into the Hangover movie to make his wife, who was battling breast cancer, laugh when she watched it.
OolyY TIL that while interbreeding occurred between neanderthals and early modern humans, the only genetic evidence of these events conserved within the human genome comes from Y chromosomal DNA meaning that all neanderthal DNA within modern humans comes from male neanderthal and female human pairings.