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TIL… Canada has ZERO (0) tonnes of Gold reserves

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v1174 TIL when John Von Neumann was 15 his dad took him to a renowned mathematician to be tutored. The mathematician was so taken aback by his genius he was brought to tears on his first visit.
pYAP8 TIL the first Scram button on a nuclear reactor had its origins in 1942 where an actual control rod tied to a rope with a man with an axe stood next to it; cutting the rope would mean the rods would fall by gravity into the reactor core, shutting the reactor down.
Lmep TIL at the Sanjusangendo Temple in Japan there is an annual competition to fire as many arrows through the temple as possible in 24 hours. The arrows can’t hit the floor, walls or the ceiling. The current record is 8133 successful shots out of 13,053 shots, set in 1686.
GY4BG TIL the male penis bone is non-skeletal, which means the bone basically floats in the penis.
BgeBk TIL that there hasn’t been a confirmed sighting of the Aru flying fox since 1877. The IUCN Red List classes the species as “critically endangered”.