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TIL Scientists have actually succeeded in turning lead into gold, through Nuclear Transmutation.

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neK5b TIL Dorothy Parker gave her estate to Martin Luther King when she died. After he was killed, her estate was bequeathed to the NAACP. After many years of contestation, during which her ashes were kept in a filing cabinet, she now resides at NAACP headquarters as a Defender of Human and Civil Rights.
ekkb TIL that when chimpanzee infants die, the mothers will continue to carry and groom the dead bodies until the mothers are able to move on.
VrQ0 TIL that John F Kennedy, C.S Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same day and that a book called Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley, had those three In Purgatory engaged in a philosophical discussion on faith.
X0ZVr TIL about "Giant Mine" in NWT, Canada a mine that contains enough arsenic to kill every person on earth several times over. The arsenic has no half life so it will be just as deadly in 1,000,000 years. The government of Canada is currently trying to stop it from leaking into the environment.
EolW TIL that in Switzerland, in order to vote, you either present your sword or photo ID