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TIL that Tibet is full of oil and gas resources.

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QNlw6 TIL of the 'Nevada Triangle'. Located close to Area 51, it is more deadly than the Bermuda Triangle, claiming 2000 missing aircraft in 60 years, and average of 3 per month. Most are never found.
x6yjD TIL about the Roman Pyramid of Cestius, is 37m tall is one of the best-preserved ancient buildings in Rome.
x6po1 TIL that the first clear cola was White Coke, a clear variant of Coca-Cola produced in the 1940s at the request of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, who did not want to be seen drinking Coke as it was a symbol of American imperialism. The clear beverage was intended to resemble vodka.
epPQ5 TIL about Donald Harvey, a nurse who murdered 37 patients, was apprehended after a medical examiner with the genetic ability to detect cyanide performed an autopsy on one of his victims, leading to an investigation that uncovered Harvey's crimes.
lo81G TIL about Priceville. A small community founded in the 1800s by African-Americans not far north from what is now Toronto. It was mysteriously emptied of its black residents, its cemetery bulldozed, and the records of interracial marriages that occured there covered up.