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TIL Instead of using spray cans some graffiti artists are just cleaning dirt off of certain surfaces to make their masterpieces. They call it Reverse Graffiti.

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OGgp6 TIL that an estimated of 22% of all gold ever accounted for on the earth's surface came from a single plateau in South Africa called Witwatersrand.
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M71DK TIL that if you're a communist - or were in the past 10 years - the US prevents you from becoming a citizen
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