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TIL all the gold ever mined on Earth came from meteorites - not from the Earth's core.

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KORrG TIL there was a period in French history where the country actually was represented by a plain white flag.
gr9EL TIL because radio stations at the time preferred to not play songs lasting more than three minutes, Paul Simon listed the running time of the 1967 Simon & Garfunkel song "Fakin' It" as 2:74 on the label.
W7LnY TIL that average cumulus cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kilograms. That's about the same as 40 school buses.
X0Gn6 TIL that doctors use nitroglycerin as a medicinal drug because it's a vasodilator. Applications of this drug are heart failure, hypertension and angina pectoris among others
GYl7 TIL there’s an Immortality Drive on the I.S.S. that has the DNA sequence of Stephen Colbert