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TIL Singapore imports so much sand that Indonesia has actually lost islands- Indonesia counts its islands before it's too late

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N7Q48 TIL Black apples exist. In a remote part of Tibet grow "Black Diamond Apples". This is due to the amount of UV light they receive along with temperature fluctuations at night.
xWlo TIL the population of Kabul, Afghanistan has grown from 500,000 in 2001 to about 4 million today after the elimination of the Taliban regime.
oVmW TIL that Timothy May predicted Bitcoin, colored coins, Silk Road, and Wikileaks… in 1988.
RP87 TIL that Ozzy Osbourne’s DNA has been sequenced to see how he’s still alive after a life of hard drug use and drinking. His full genome was sequenced and analysed by American researchers, who uncovered mutations related to addiction, metabolism, and Osbourne’s Neanderthal ancestors.
X0ENE TIL l South Yorkshire town of Doncaster is technically part of Scotland. Its Scottish history dates way back to the 12th century (1136, to be specific), when the town was signed over to King David I in the Treaty of Durham, and it was never officially given back.