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TIL about Lake Natron: a Tanzanian salt lake that can turn animals into stone

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xV6pg TIL Russians were making color photos over 100 years ago.
xaNB TIL that the government is putting the new Department of Homeland Security headquarters on a campus that had originally been established by Congress as the Government Hospital for the Insane.
6e6l TIL Peter the Great, enamored of Western ways, encouraged cleanshavenness among Russians by imposing a tax on beards. Noblemen paid 100 rubles a year for a medallion that served as a beard license.
QJ9od TIL that singing clearly is possible with a speech impediment because singing and speech are processed by different hemispheres of the brain
kJlb5 TIL that the word "confetti" in English and in Italian means 2 different things (respectively little pieces of paper or plastic that you throw at parties, and almonds covered in chocolate and sugar that you gift to wedding guests)