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8e8OL TIL that the world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold. This gold is dispersed throughout the oceans in tiny particles and is not currently economically feasible to extract. The total value of this gold is estimated to be around $771 trillion, which is nearly 10 times the current global GDP.
oBdlr TIl Most bald babies will get their hair in by their 1st birthday but can be an issue if they appear bald by age 2. Baby baldness can rarely be caused by fungus or it can be an autoimmune condition
ywQJ TIL critics of early locomotives feared that women’s bodies were “not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that women’s uteruses would fly out of their bodies as they were accelerated to that speed. Others suspected that any human body might simply melt at high speeds.
a8Dgb TIL the Graphing Calculator program for classic Mac OS was written by an Apple contractor whose project was cancelled frustrated that what he worked on would never be released but still had building access, and decided to keep working on it and get it included in Mac OS.