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TIL that Saudi Arabia imports sand and camels from Australia
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TIL-Martin Luther King Jr was once stabbed in the chest, which only deepened his commitment to nonviolence.
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TIL when Arthur Guinness was starting his brewery, he was so certain of its success he leased an unused brewery in Dublin for 9,000 years at a rate of £45 per year.
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TIL The White City of Tel Aviv was constructed from the early 1930s to 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting modern organic planning principles. It is not a 'garden city', but an urban entity based on an environmental approach
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TIL that in 1944, the US Mint made cents out of recycled brass shells spent in the war effort. Steel was used in 1943, but due to complaints over confusion between the steel cent and coins like the dime, the mint was pressured to make this creative change the following year.
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TIL that in ancient Greece, the first century BC, an iron statue of a queen was suspended in mid-air in her tomb using magnetism