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TIL that some beaches in Hawaii are white due to fish poop.

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J1MnB TIL of the Sunda Straits Crisis. A two week confrontation between the UK and Indonesia which nearly escalated into full scale war.
X0Vm6 TIL that the British biochemist and historian of magic Edwin Dawes was given a gas mask as a boy, and decided to test it out by making Chlorine gas in the family shed.
YpbZ7 TIL Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, was inspired to write the books based on a dream she had. Stephenie said she was never a writer before Twilight.
yQLm8 TIL of Walraven van Hall, a Dutch banker who during WW2 set up a shadow bank to finance the Dutch resistance movement.
VMbkB TIL The design of the Emperor’s home in “Mulan” takes its inspiration from China’s Forbidden City. The timeline of the movie is set during China’s Han Dynasty, from around 200 B.C.to 200 A.D.; while the Forbidden City was built about 1,200 years later