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TIL there’s a diamond mine in Siberia so large that helicopter traffic over it is prohibited due to several incidents in which they were “sucked in.”

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M7oaK TIL about a two billion-year-old naturally occuring U235 nuclear reactor in Gabon, where unique geological conditions created a sustained nuclear reactor for 100,000 years
XEA4k TIL that the Ancient Greeks invented the spiked dog collar to protect their canine buddies from wolf attacks
JpM1 TIL a 18C. astronomer went to India to see a Transit of Venus. Delayed, he missed it, but decided to stay for the next one, in 8 years. The second try was clouded out. 3 years later he returned to France to find he’d been declared dead, his wife had remarried, and his estate was gone
oBXW TIL that Target department stores in Australia are knockoffs of Target stores in the US. They are in no way affiliated.
YpNXB TIL that all beaches in Mexico are property of the federal government. There are no privately owned beaches in the whole country, all of them are open to public use.