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TIL about Trovants: Living stones of Romania that grow and move!

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wode7 TIL: Sweden sold 1000 Volvo 144 cars and some other items to North Korea in the 1970s. North Korea never paid. North Korea still owes 2.2 billion Swedish kronor (234 million euros) to Sweden from these imports.
pxdQ TIL: There’s a subway ticket machine in Moscow that accepts 30 squats as payment. Installed ahead of the 2014 Sochi Olympics to “bring sports to the people”.
n9xW TIL that there`s already a successor for the Blu Ray Disc, that has a capacity of up to 6TB and data transfer rates like a SATA 3 Hard Drive
5wPp TIL The blood on set for Sweeney Todd was coloured orange so it rendered correctly on the desaturated color film used.
v1gLK TIL that some German authorities still accept the Ariernachweis (Aryan certificate), which certified that a person was a member of the Aryan race, as proof of nationality since it has accurate birth and marriage data.