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

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j6rLp TIL that the Caral-Supe civilization in Peru was building huge pyramidal temples at the same time the first step pyramids of Egypt were built. And Caral-Supe was the most densely populated area in the world in third-millenium BC.
J1vXl TIL that drinking heavy water and alcohol together cancels out the vertigo. If not heavy water, then glycerol works too.
MBg8 TIL due to name confusion, the staff of Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange wrongly-addressed mail.
ANZ8l TIL that the Titanic was not the first ship of it's production line. With the Titanics sister ship, the Olympic (which was only 3 inches shorter and 1000 tons lighter than the Titanic), having already served as a successful cruise liner for a whole year before the Titanics fateful maiden voyage.
EPLo TIL In 1847 Choctaw Indians sent $170 to Ireland as famine relief