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TIL the city which is set to host the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup final does not yet exist

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69Wx7 TIL Between 2002 and 2010 poachers killed 4,000 elephants, 95% of the population in Chad's Zakouma’s National Park. Now elephants and wildlife are flourishing there again after Chad invited a non-profit organization to help restore and manage it
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m1LRE TIL that the Richter Window is the stained glass window in the south transept of the Cologne Cathedral. It's made of 11.263 glass squares -each 9.6×9.6cm/3.78×3.78in- in 72 different colors and covers a surface of 106m²/1141ft².
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