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TIL that a company sells $425 24k gold pills just so people can say they literally poop gold

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GOWg TIL Hawaii has a clock on a pole stopped at 1:04 am in a park as a memorial to the 61 people that died there in 1960 when a 20-ft tsunami hit the area, the clock was stopped by the wave.
7rb1Z TIL of Sir Ewan Forbes, an intersex British aristocrat and rural doctor who applied to change his sex in 1952. Afraid of possible ostracism, he alerted his patients, priest and friends in advance and found that they were “universally supportive”. He married his partner in a church a month later.
AZal TIL that on June 28, 2009 Stephen Hawking threw a party for time-travelers. He announced the party the day after it happened, and according to Hawking, no one came.
rNd5M TIL State-owned enterprises accounted for over 60% of China’s market capitalization in 2019 and generated 40% of China’s GDP in 2020.
GYOn7 TIL Mikhail Gorbachev’s “debut album” of romantic ballads was sold at auction in 2009 for £100,000 to fund research by his late wife’s foundation into childhood cancer. All of the songs, which Gorbachev sang himself, were favorites of his wife’s.