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TIL it takes roughly 500,000 gallons of water (≈2000 tons) to produce 1 ton of lithium

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D1pJY TIL that for Elton Johns wedding, Eminem gave him 2 diamond-encrusted cock rings on a velvet cushion.
wen6 TIL there is country that ranks lower than North Korea in the Press Freedom Index, which measures how much freedom journalists have. Eritrea surpassed North Korea as the bottom spot in 2007 and has held it since.
nGkd TIL in 1963 at age 11, Kurt Russell starred in a movie with Elvis Presley. 16 years later, a 27-year-old Russell played Elvis in a TV movie, and 15 years after that, voiced Elvis in Forrest Gump.
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EA0 TIL that German Chocolate Cake has nothing to do with Germany, but rather a man with the last name of German.