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TIL that pink Himalayan sea salt is actually mined from mountains in Pakistan from a sea that existed hundreds of millions of years ago

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4kgww TIL that the US Embassy in Iran was not demolished after the hostage crisis but was instead turned into an anti-American museum
6bxw TIL a lack of toilets costs India more than $50 billion a year, mostly through premature deaths and hygiene-related diseases.
780QP TIL that Jed, the dog who played the "villain" dog in the 1982 film The Thing was the same dog that played White Fang in the 1991 Disney movie
dDkr8 TIL Afro-Bolivians have their own king who is recognized by the state of Bolivia (which is a democratic presidential republic) as the leader of the Afro-Bolivian community, the current king is the descendant of a former African royal family which was brought to Bolivia as slaves.
Memj7 TIL when a ptition for the decrimnalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen was addressed to the French parliment in 1977, it was signed by such intellectuals as Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes and Simone de Beauvoir.