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TIL that all the gold ever mined could fit into just 3.5 olympic swimming pools

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j6dXE TIL of Dr. Benjamin Spock, a pediatrician whose 1946 book "Baby and Child Care" is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century. His then unconventional advice to parents to show affection to their children and to see them as individuals revolutionized how parents raised their children.
yQjn8 TIL Of the Nazi drug D-IX that allowed test subjects to march 56 miles per day while carrying a 44 lb. backpack
M8dB TIL about a hacker who, while serving five years for hacking, signed up for a prison IT class, and successfully hacked into the prison’s mainframe
QJZBa TIL that applause was invented in 6th Century BC so that audiences had to clap in approval of their leader, since there were too many people to meet individually.
nemA7 TIL There was a carnivorous mammal that killed and ate dinosaurs