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TIL sweetness is more addictive than cocaine

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nex7r TIL Chris Brown is banned from entering Australia, the UK and New Zealand due to his criminal activity
kr0e TIL There is a pistol that fires the same round used in the Barrett .50Cal BMG Sniper Rifle used by special forces snipers, and it looks like something from Star Wars! (video in comments)
ADO1o TIL that scientists have engineered micromotors powered by bacteria and controlled by light
R5oe9 TIL The Confederation Bridge, the longest ice-covered water crossing bridge in the world spans a 12.9 km
wL1E6 TIL Iceland is one of the few countries that is mosquito-free despite having 1600 species of dryland animals. However, in 1980 a professor of the University of Iceland found a mosquito on a plane and it is now kept in a jar at the Icelandic Institute of National History.