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TIL about Nahwa, a village in the UAE, surrounded by an Omani territory, which is surrounded by the UAE

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WJa9 TIL that George Orwell would be considered a terrorist by today’s British government
9nJp TIL famed volcanologist Maurice Krafft said “I have seen so much eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care”, The very next day him and his wife were killed by a pryoclastic flow
P4bL TIL in 1930, Albert Einstein supported the idea of a Jewish Homeland in Peru. Oppenheimer told him: “the land and climate are quite suitable”
BrVMd TIL S. E. Hinton, the writer of the Novel, The Outsiders, was 15 when she started writing the book, 16 when she finished most of it and 18 when it was published.
YpEQW TIL that soviets had nuclear tractors, aka Project Gamma Kolos, in an attempt to mutate wheat seeds before sowing them