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TIL the Belgian passport has pictures of Tintin, The Smurfs and Lucky Luke.

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Meknm TIL There are 150 million mammoths buried in frozen Siberian tundra. Trading in mammoth ivory is legal but elephant ivory is not, leading to poaching of mammoth tusk ivory. Hence, laws are being planned to include mammoth under protected species despite being extinct for 4000 years.
vyoB TIL If we’d put a giant mirror 10 lightyears away from Earth and looked through a telescope, we’d (theoretically) see 20 years into the past
ZrZa TIL Morocco is the United States oldest ally.
neAAY TIL that when Lafayette visited America in 1824, he and Thomas Jefferson collapsed in each other's arms and cried upon their reunion. They had not seen each other since 1789. Jefferson had to have somebody else read the speech he prepared because he was so emotional that his voice was too weak.
9Ypb7 TIL of Colma, California, a city for the dead. 1500 aboveground residents and 1.5 million underground. Colma’s official motto is, “It’s Great to Be Alive in Colma.”