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TIL a previously brilliant-blue Yellowstone hot spring is turning green as a result of tourists throwing ‘good luck’ coins into it

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D5wg TIL that in 1997, a UNICEF delegation determined that North Korean hospitals did not even have thermometers or other basic medical equipment.
EwvP TIL that Libyan dictator Gaddafi gave the Irish Republican Army four tons of Semtex. The IRA sold the plastic explosive to FARC in Colombia with bomb-making technology and training, charging $1 million per class for 28 classes
Yp4pA TIL due to extreme lack of surface water, a unique project was constructed to reliably provide the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus with water. A 50 mile long pipeline passing under the sea transfers water covering demand for drinking and irrigation for the state at the northern part of Cyprus.
01w1 TIL that in northern Finland, reindeer’s horns are painted with a fluorescent color in order to avoid car accidents.
KKLQ TIL There are 14 species of ants that enslave other ants