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TIL that Saudi Arabia imports sand from Australia and the UK

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4X1AN TIL The average age of becoming a grandparent in the US is 50 years for women and a couple of years older for men. Most grandparents have multiple (5 to 6 on average) grandchildren
P1bOZ TIL about Victor Lustig, a con artist who famously "sold" the Eiffel Tower twice in 1925 to scrap metal dealers in one of the most audacious scams in history.
6J8W TIL Douglas Adams got the idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy when he was drunkenly stargazing in a field with a copy of “Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe” in his hands
MeEmm TIL Mel Boozer, the African American human rights activist, became the first openly gay person ever nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States in 1980.
b91rE TIL South America's only existing monarchy is in Bolivia. In the 1830s, enslaved men on a plantation realised Prince Uchicho - a noble from the Kingdom of Kongo, Africa - laboured amongst them. They crowned him King and, reognised by the state, his descendents preside over the same region today.