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TIL Iraq still uses bomb detecting devices that are nothing more than a modern day dowsing rod and have been proven fake. They were purchased for around 85 million.

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mV1R TIL that Sweden’s recycling program is so successful that they are asking Norway for their trash to power their own Waste-to-Power plants because they don’t have enough non-recycled waste.
vPXVx TIL a movie version of the SNL sketch Sprockets was supposed to be made in 2000. However, it was cancelled when Mike Meyers (Dieter) didn't approve the script. The scriptwriter was Meyers himself!
kJlLd TIL of the given name "Increase." It is the English language literal translation of the name Joseph. Since the 19th century, the name has decreased in popularity and is now rare, if not extinct.
r00y TIL After the 1929 stock market crash, the US government deported millions of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans regardless of citizenship
gMoAW TIL the human womb is the oxygen equivalent of the top of Mt Everest, designed to keep the fetus asleep 95% of the time