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TIL modern science can turn other elements into gold (in microscopic amounts)

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4Oja TIL an American woman was arrested for letting her kids play outside supervised
AN9gl TIL that Vodafone paid over 185 billion euros in stock to purchase German company Mannesmann at the peak of the telecommunications bubble in 2000. Vodafone today has a market cap of around 22 billion euros.
p8vlQ TIL an unconscious prisoner was declared dead by three doctors before he was discovered to be alive when he started snoring on the autopsy table
dD4Md TIL that cicadas are the world’s loudest insects; their singing can be as loud as 100 decibels
JYnv1 TIL the longest filibuster in US history (a process of delaying a bill passing by speaking in the Senate until you want to stop) was over 24 hours (24 hours and 18 minutes). This was an attempt to delay The Civil Rights Act of 1957.