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RRLl TIL The U.S. Government is currently developing a gun that can fire a laser guided lightning bolt.
l7Jaa TIL Upon the death of the Dalai Lama, a search for his reincarnation is conducted where a child is identified through a series of 'tests' before being recognized as the succeeding Dalai Lama. The current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the 14th.
LQgy9 TIL: The Mediterranean Sea has a high salinity because around 5 million years ago it, for not 100% known reasons, dried up for roughly 500,000 years.
R7gy9 TIL In 1950, myxoma virus (a type of pox virus) was deliberately released into the rabbit population in Australia as a means of population control, causing the death of over 500 million rabbits
mWJM TIL the Netherlands arrested a Russian diplomat for mistreating his children. Two weeks later, a senior Dutch diplomat was beaten up in his security-heavy home in Moscow by anonymous thugs.