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TIL that gold can be made so thin that 1 ounce can cover 300 square feet ft as “gold leaf”.

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YV5d TIL: Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” was written by children’s author Shel Silverstein (author of Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree)
x6ny5 TIL about the 'Jaipur Foot', an ultra low-cost Indian innovation for prosthetic limbs. Around 2.4 million have been distributed for free across 27 countries since 1975. The charitable organisation was founded by Devendra Raj Mehta, an ex-Deputy Governor of the RBI and is fully funded by donations
m1Z5R TIL the creator of the popular e-mail client Eudora named it after author Eudora Welty, for her short story "Why I Live at the P.O." If he had known that Eudora would become as popular as it did, he would not have presumed to name it after a (then) living author (she was pleased and amused)
Rdm8 TIL that Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus (a Pulitzer Prize winning anthropomorphic comic about Nazi concentration camps) also created the Garbage Pail Kids.
x6mLg TIL that in 2002, McDonald's attracted significant public criticism, after It released a burger in Norway and Denmark called "McAfrika", just as a major famine was occurring in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Lesotho and Swaziland