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TIL That aluminum used to be one of the most expensive metals in the world. Only the wealthiest ate with aluminum utensils, while lesser nobility ate with gold.

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XOO6 TIL Scientists are on the verge of being able to produce viable, living human organs via 3D bioprinters.
PdwL TIL that in 1994, an American figure skater hired a hitman to smash the leg of her main rival.
nW6D7 TIL that Leonard Nemoy directed "Three Men and A Baby".
xVpdB TIL Mike Tyson once threatened to beat up Michael Jordan while out to dinner with him (and Mike Ditka, Don King, and Richard Dent) because Michael Jordan had briefly dated Mike Tyson's ex-wife years before Tyson even met and married her.
EBP0 TIL there is a US Navy ship named after a mountain, which was named after a president: the USS Mount McKinley