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TIL South Australia has 80% of the world's opals

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rNk5e TIL Len Hawkes - Leonard Donald Stanley "Chip" Hawkes member of the Tremeloes is the father of Chesney Hawkes.
M7O7m TIL that when the East German government voted to remove General Secretary Erich Honecker from office for incompetence, Honecker voted against himself.
5jk9 TIL $1 billion dollars (12% of GDP) was stolen from 3 Moldovan banks in 2014, a main culprit was elected Mayor in 2015.
9Qm7 TIL Iraq has spent $85M on fake bomb detectors
VMeGk TIL that DisneyWorld was designed to be inhospitable to mosquitoes. Disney also stocks its ponds with mosquitofish that eat mosquito larvae in the water.