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TIL that a small tree called Flaveleira, Cnidoscolus quercifolius, common name is the source of the term "favela" for a type of low-income informal settlement in Brazil.

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69Xml TIL a "Chernobyl necklace" is a horizontal scar at the base of the throat from surgery to remove thyroid cancer caused by fallout from a nuclear accident
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XL1R TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.