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TIL during prohibition Herbert Hoover would go to the Belgian embassy to have martinis, as it was not illegal to possess alcohol on foreign soil.

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yVlWX TIL about the Great Green Wall — a UN project to stop the Sahara from expanding south
XEV0D TIL there are people who keep leeches as pets.
Ajwx TIL that for the first 6 years of Pavarotti’s career, he couldn’t get paid singing roles and had to work as an elementary school teacher and insurance salesman to support himself.
b99va TIL Osama Bin Laden visited Indiana and Los Angeles in the late 1970s
kyre TIL that we turn our heads when trying to find the source of a sound because the brains can identify the time difference (milliseconds) that it takes the sound to reach one ear to the other, helping assist with sound localization.