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TIL If all the gold suspended in the world’s seawater were mined, each person on Earth could have about 9 pounds of gold.

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ep4xk TIL: Bodhidharma, an Indian monk, has many legends attributed to him. One of which is that he inadvertently developed the foundations of Kung Fu upon seeing monks hunched over desks and noted it will negatively affect physical and mental health so he taught them exercise techniques based on yoga.
xVMeb TIL that lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses got to the Madagascar by rafting there, according to scientists.
5VBMR TIL the ISS is traveling at 17,500 miles per hour
oBleA TIL there's a name for those moments you smell something really bad but nothing bad is around and the only explanation is that it's coming form the inside of your nose and it's called Phantosmia.
mxdVv TIL of Girgori Perelman, the only person in history to have solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. After solving the Poincaré conjecture Perelman was offered the Field's Medal and $1 million prize money, he declined them both.