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TIL Saudi Arabia beheads nearly two people per week

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XEKME TIL the first huge ammonium nitrate disaster happened 104 years before the Beirut explosion in Faversham, Kent, UK, but was hushed up by authorities during the first world war. 108 people lost their lives and many more were injured.
Ydjx TIL rice can grow in a wide range of environments, but it is typically grown in submerged fields because it can tolerate such conditions while most weeds and pests cannot.
oR5kY TIL 120 starlink satellites fall out of orbit per month producing 30 kilograms of aluminum oxide each which eats away at the ozone layer and these oxides have increased 8 fold in the atmosphere since 2016
wokxY TIL that tattooing is illegal in Cuba
NXnV8 TIL that, because of the gyroscopic precession of the Earth, the ancient Greeks and Romans didn’t have a North Star