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TIL That the old London Bridge is in Lake Havasu, AZ

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b9NbE TIL There is a lake in Russia nicknamed the “Siberian Maldives” where Russians pose for photos due to its bright turquoise colour. The lake is not that colour naturally it is turquoise due to toxic waste runoff from a local power plant and is very hazardous
grwdy TIL the West Australian Christmas Tree (Nuytsia floribunda) is a parasitic tree that sends out roots up to 150m (492ft) to attach themselves to any nearby trees and plants to draw water and nutrients from them. Almost all species are susceptible to attack.
awerL TIL that years before Peary reached the North Pole, he kidnapped a native child and stole one of the world's largest iron meteorites from the Inuit in Greenland, delivering both to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
1rBr TIL that if your eyes were as good as the Hubble Space Telescope, you could stand in New York and distinguish two fireflies 1 meter (3 feet) apart in San Francisco.
EOZw TIL that, fourteen years after publication, Dr. Seuss removed a reference to pollution in Lake Erie from THE LORAX. Researchers informed him that the environmental efforts to restore the lake had been successful. The line was changed in subsequent editions.