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TIL BMW used to offer Flame Throwers on their cars to stop car jacking in South Africa

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p8eKp TIL that while colored diamonds get their color from chemical impurities absorbing light- such as yellow diamonds containing nitrogen and blue diamonds containing boron- pink diamonds have no traces of impurities, thus baffling scientists and geologists as to how they have a pink color.
4pQ5 TIL the UK has a bigger population than the combination of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, despite being less than 2% of their total size (by area)
v1l7j TIL of Dondurma, a Turkish variant of ice cream typically sold from carts, where the vendor deliberately pranks the customer before serving the actual cone
VRG8 TIL of Thiess of Kaltenbrun, a man accused of being a werewolf, who escaped death by fire in 1692 by claiming that he was sent by God to fight the devil and his witches
a8G4b TIL that since before The Civil War no Democrat has been elected President to replace an outgoing Democrat President.