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TIL All the gold that has ever been discovered on Earth would fit into a 23 meter cube.

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W7EPL TIL that in 1943, the hull of the tanker ship SS Schenectady cracked in half while docked in Portland, Oregon. The sound of the fracture was reported to have been heard over a mile away, and the cause of the failure wasn’t fully understood for another 50 years.
M7Qa TIL that in 1953 the United States government detonated a nuclear bomb in Utah more powerful than Little Boy of Hiroshima. The bomb, nicknamed Harry, was known to the Utahans as Dirty Harry because of the large amount of fallout.
m1jmo TIL A former skyscraper hotel in downtown Houston was left empty from 1988 until 2013 when it was converted into a Holiday Inn. The vacant building still had electricity, a library, and squattors who made themselves at home with leftover furnishings
b60pj TIL 85% of college grads affected by autism are unemployed
O5MR TIL the daughter of J.R.R. Tolkien believes that the description of the Dead Marshes (in LOTR) is based on the author’s experiences during the First World War.