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TIL that North Korea still owes Sweden €300million for 1000 stolen Volvos 40 years ago

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BreBK Today I learned all Navel Oranges are genetically identical, the trees originally grafted in the 1800's from one mutant branch on a tree in a monastery in Brazil. The mutation that made it seedless just happened to cause a smaller conjoined twin to grow on one end, the "navel".
Nv4e TIL Mike Rowe was an opera singer. “I joined the opera to get my union card and meet girls”
P1Y8g TIL that because Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle's B25 took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo in 1942, he was honorarily authorized to wear gold Naval Aviator Wings in uniform.
R55Bw TIL there is a type of chameleon, called Jackson's Chameleon, that has horns like a triceratops!
0wwxM Short answer: Only if you’re already good