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TIL Bizarrely, the US has a Prohibition Party whose mascot is the dromedary and whose chairman is named Phil Collins

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mxPAM TIL Scientists discovered what they think are the world's oldest biological colours - they are bright pink. The pigments were discovered after researchers crushed 1.1billion year old rocks in the marine shale deposit beneath the Sahara desert.
kJLJE TIL grapefruit is a hybrid of sweet orange and pomelo
M7X1B TIL beetroot juice was actually used as red hair dye in the 16th century, particularly by Victorians.
wPjP TIL that the UK has spent more than $10m in encircling the Ecuador Embassy to prevent Assange from retreating to Ecuador where he has received political asylum
E9no TIL R. Norris Williams survived the Titanic sinking but spent so much time submerged in the icy Atlantic that doctors wanted to amputate his legs on rescue ship Carpathia. He refused the amputation ,recovered and went on to win the U.S. Tennis Championship that very same year