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TIL Of the estimated 208,874 tonnes of gold that has been mined throughout history, around two-thirds of it has been mined since 1950.

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XEa7E TIL in 1978 Ford Motor Company had to recall 1.5 million Ford Pintos for fuel tank design defects which made the vehicles susceptible to explosive fire if the car was rear ended at more than 20 MPH.
8dM8 TIL Plane exhaust kills more people than plane crashes. Approximately 10,000 people are killed annually from toxic pollutants from aircraft compared to around 1,000 from crashes
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