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TIL that there is a pink lake in Western Australia due to the presence of algae and halobacteria!

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YZPx TIL that during the Kosovo War (1998-99) as many as 300 people were abducted and killed for an international organ harvesting and trafficking network.
XwB6 TIL Twitter makes bank with every company that wants to advertise on on the site. A company pays $0.50-$2 every time a Twitter user interacts with their promoted tweet. When a company promotes in the “Trending” section, they pay $200k per day.
9YwNX TIL about the Great Filter, a theory that suggests the reason we haen't found life in space is because they don't pass through a part of their evolution known as the Great Filter, which wipes out the species. Worse, humans won't know if we pass through the filter until it'd be too late to save us.
gVMW TIL in 2008, Plainclothes cops jumped out of a van, snatched up a 12-year-old girl, and beat her during a prostitution raid. After discovering that they had the wrong house, they charged her with assaulting a public official.
5YbMR TIL US Air Force pilot Brian Udell once survived ejecting at supersonic speed, and was severely injured by the wind. His navigator did the same and died instantly.