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TIL that North-Korea still has not payed Sweden for the 600 volvos they bought in 1971

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epW8n TIL that Absinthe is not hallucinogenic as I've been led to believe. Think Kylie, green fairy in Moulin Rouge. This was a lie perpetrated by the wine industry in order to win back their market after a bug decimated the vineyards.
xVrVb TIL a moustache is a beard
LQelr TIL CT scanners are being used to peek inside trading card packs without opening them to assess their value
Pv0J TIL sunflowers can “remove up to 95% of uranium of contaminated water in 24 hours”. And “experiments in Chernobyl have demonstrated that they can concentrate on 55 kg of plant dry weight all the cesium and strontium radioactivity from an area of 75 m2”.
lo6AK TIL Michelangelo was around 23 years old when he created the Pieta sculpture