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TIL: In 1971 the Prince of Laos was caught at a french airport with 123 pounds of pure heroin that he planned on shipping to New York

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kJxvB TIL that the photographer responsible for the sleeve of the iconic Deep Purple's album "Machine Head", is also on it.
VM8jG TIL the nations of Slovakia and Slovenia, which regularly find themselves mistaken for each other, caused further confusion in 2018 when their respective prime ministers resigned on the same day for unrelated reasons.
N7Oge TIL in 2003, North Korea suggested several symbols which were included in international Unicode, later becoming emojis. They requested ☕ to mark tea houses on maps and ⚐ & ⚑ for military battles and victories. They also requested ⬆, ⬇, ⬅ (but no right arrow), ☔, ⚡, ⚠ and ⏏.
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