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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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b6rgQ TIL that sea drops by about 328 ft (100m) near Sri Lanka because gravity is anomalously weaker there
4kVbX TIL before becoming famous as a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, animator Terry Gilliam provided voices on two albums by Frank Zappa: Freak Out! (1966) and Absolutely Free (1967)
6EJ08 TIL that the Klaxon horn (the very loud "aaaaYOOOGAH" horn found on old cars and Navy ships) was invented by the same guy who invented one of the first electric hearing aids.
kJnd5 TIL following Devo's Rock Hall nomination, the band posted an open letter saying Mike Judge's Idiocracy is "the movie Devo should have made" and "Is there any question that De-evolution is real?"
9wp6B TIL about Janet Stephens, a hair stylist turned hairstyle archeologist. She visited a museum in 2001 and realized historians were wrong about hairstyles on Greek and Roman statues being wigs. She recreated the styles and published her findings in The Journal of Roman Archaeology.