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TIL of an archeological dig site northeast of the Dead Sea in the southern Jordan River Valley that has many striking characteristics to the Biblical city of Sodom.

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Pb5V TIL that there are only 10 modern countries that have never been (in their entirety) a colony of a European empire: Liberia, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, North/South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia.
GYBVg TIL TIL: Piranhas are mostly scavengers and fairly harmless fish to humans. The reason we think they're rabid flesh eaters is because a bunch of Brazilians played a practical joke on Teddy Roosevelt.
aypN TIL that it is illegal for Federal Employees to possess or use marijuana under any circumstances, even for medicinal use or if they live in a state that allows it.
X0vLE TIL: Oral ingestion of Visine warrants immediate medical attention or a call to a poison control center
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