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TIL that out of the 22 deepest mines in the world 17 are located in South Africa

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KDg6 TIL an Indian businessman had 15 goldsmiths working for 15 days to construct him a shirt made out of solid gold which cost $230,888.
DQe1v TIL the oldest active missing person case in the US is over 95 yrs old. 73 yo Marvin Clark, who on HALLOWEEN weekend in 1926 departed his Tigard, OR home to meet his daughter in Portland. A John Doe body was later found between the 2 cities in 1986 but DNA testing in 2018 determined it was not him.
R7xkj TIL Sigmund Freud's nephew convinced the public that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast
JYZ8V TIL the young, unknown Afghan girl from the 1985 cover of National Geographic was located in 2002 and her identify was confirmed using iris recognition. She remembered being photographed in the mid-80s but had never seen the image of herself as a child before it was shown to her in January 2002.
p8A88 TIL In 2005, A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing and robbery at a pizza restaurant. He asked the judge to extend his prison sentence to 33 years to match Larry Bird's jersey number. It was granted and the prisoner later regretted it.