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TIL after three failed marriages, Whoopi Goldberg came to the conclusion that she's much happier living by herself, explaining: “I don’t want somebody in my house.”

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GYxnj TIL that in 1993, South Africa produced around 619 tons of gold per year, the world’s biggest producer. But by 2018 the country was ranked 9th with only 120 tons produced per year. 1st to 8th: China, Australia, Russia, USA, Canada, Peru, Ghana, Mexico
MeNJA TIL: Typographers have a sense of humor. Kerning is the art of spacing letters so they are readable. Keming is when you kern letters incorrectly and they blend together.
b6g6N Today I learned virtual reality dining is being created that uses electrodes to make you taste different foods and even feel them in your mouth, their texture and you chewing it! Sooo weird! What if one day we can create a reality within a reality that can’t be discerned from each other?
a8d7J TIL about the tensor tympani muscle: a muscle within the middle ear that some people can voluntarily contract to produce a "rumbling" noise that only they can hear.
b6YVE TIL: Eumachia was a Roman business woman and priestess, being one of the few wealthy women of the time and funded many public buildings under the practice of euergetism, which is the practice in which high status/wealthy distribute their wealth to the community. Her statue is in the Naples Museum.