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TIL in 2018, World of Warcraft's virtual gold was 7 times more valuable than Venezuela's currency

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lMx1 TIL that Bill Nye the Science Guy only has a bachelors of science, but has been awarded three honorary doctorate degrees
yVjkl TIL the novel "The Wreck of the Titan" was written in 1898, before the real Titanic was even an idea. Like the Titanic, the fictional ship sank after wrecking on an iceberg in April in the North Atlantic Ocean, and there were not enough lifeboats.
80wV TIL that although you can’t change the genes you inherit, you can change whether they are turned on or off.
JY54j TIL In the original Cinderella Story the ball was set over three days, and Cinderella had eluded him the first two nights, so the prince had set a mousetrap and covered the palace stairs in tar to catch Cinderella before she escaped.
oBVyE TIL that after a nuclear test at the Bikini Atoll one of the experimental animals, Pig 311, actually survived and was found swimming for shore in a lagoon. It was eventually retire to the National Zoological Park in DC