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TIL that Pure Gold is edible.

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VBdkB TIL that the first astronaut to be yelled at by NASA was John Young, one of the most accomplished astronauts in history, after he smuggled a corned-beef sandwich on Gemini 3.
0wDAN TIL that the yapok is the only marsupial where both genders have a pouch. They are semi-aquatic. Females can make theirs watertight to protect young. Males store their testes in them when swimming to protect them from becoming tangled in vegetation
0wka1 TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was "grey".
Z9Ov TIL Police respond to complaints about a building sustaining damage from what appeared to be a minor earthquake. When they arrived, they found Nikola Tesla smashing his oscillator to shut it off.
a8w0o TIL Adolf Hitler was not actually a "Hitler" (Heidler). His father, Alois, was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber, who later married a Johann Georg Heidler. The Heidler family raised the boy, with his baptismal record later being annotated by a priest to rename him Alois Heidler.