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TIL theres a place in Thailand called Fak Tha District

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1gPO TIL Fraser Island, Australia, is the largest Island to be entirely made out of sand.
OGLR6 TIL that Shangri-La is a real place, after China renamed Zhongdian in 2001 after the mythical land depicted in the 1933 English novel Lost Horizon, hoping to promote tourism in the area
0avR TIL the first surgery to establish surgery as a respectable branch of medicine was performed on King Louis XIV’s anal fistula
ZVWD TIL That Inverted totalitarianism is a term coined by Princeton University political philosopher Sheldon Wolin to describe the emerging form of government of the United States, very much like the regimes of Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union.
rRkKM TIL The Mandarinfish is one of only two species in the world which can produce its own blue coloring. Other animals that appear to be blue such as peacocks, don’t actually produce a blue pigment, they have colorless cells which reflect light to make it appear blue.