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TIL that all Pakistani passports bear the inscription “This passport is valid for all countries of the World except Israel.”

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6EKvJ TIL The amount of water flowing out of the Amazon per second is greater than the amount flowing out of the next 7 largest combined
oBwkY TIL that the Hostile attribution bias is the tendency to interpret others' behaviors as having hostile intent, even when the behavior is ambiguous or benign.
Vjlk TIL a 15 year old Roman Emperor named Heliogabalus, was a notorious prankster. He would get his party guests black out drunk and then dump them into a bedroom full of toothless leopards, lions and bears. He also created the 1st known ‘whoopee cushions’ using inflated animal bladders.
8eLdZ TIL nonviolent protests engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change
9AyD TIL of a half plant, half animal sea slug that eats algae to gain their photosynthetic powers, now needing only sunlight to survive.