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TIL that Malaysian Malays must be a Muslim according to it’s government’s constitution

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oBQko TIL that bees have been shown to detect and respond to more than 60 different odours including being able to detect lung and skin cancers, diabetes, and to confirm pregnancy.
N7OXJ TIL of the Lighthouse of Maracaibo; a weather system appearing in Venezuela approximately half the year which results in near-continuous lightning for ten hours a day.
loBda TIL that when the body of Layne Staley - the lead singer of Alice In Chains - was discovered, it weighed 86 pounds. He was 6 ft. tall and suffered from depression, and addiction to speed and cocaine.
4Xa5g TIL of "starlight tours", a practice of the Saskatoon police that involved arresting Canadian indigenous people and dropping them off oustide city limits to freeze to death. It went from the 1970's to the early 2000's.
MeLL7 TIL that Iridium is so rare on Earth that annual worldwide production is only three tonnes