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TIL that in Rwanda, single-use plastics are banned

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OYOe TIL the “I should buy a boat” cat is from a Bjork music video.
R1Jw TIL that the torture perpetrated at the Kemna concentration camp, one of the first Nazi concentration camps, was so brutal that the Nazi themselves held hearings and investigated the reports of torture. However, no crimes were prosecuted, there were only warnings given.
mxZ9y TIL The pyramids weren't built by slaves, but a complex system of voluntary, privileged laborers.
Lky8r TIL that China is one of the world's biggest producers of methamphetamine and supplies ingredients to Mexican cartels
KOvj9 TIL about the ghost plant. Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll. Instead of generating energy from sunlight, it is parasitic.Its hosts are certain fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, meaning it ultimately gets its energy from photosynthetic trees.