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TIL the human body contains detectable level of precious metals like gold, silver and, platinum

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Y7aEB TIL Gorilla trekking success rate to find mountain gorilla groups in their natural habitat in Uganda and Rwanda is about 99%. There is always an advance team to locate and monitor gorillas before trekking begins
7ra9P TIL of the unit of measurement, "smoot", which is named after an MIT prank on Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity pledge, Oliver Smoot, whose body was used to measure the Harvard Bridge in 1958. One smoot is 5 foot 7 inches and length of the Harvard Bridge is 364.4 smoots.
VbdD TIL in 1927 an experiment was begun to show that solid pitch was actually a liquid. 89 years later the pitch has produced 9 drips.
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