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TIL that Andy Dick has been to rehab 20 times.

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W7YJX TIL Freshwater snails carry a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis, which infects nearly 250 million people, mostly in Asia, Africa and South America. “It's one of the world's most deadly parasites,” says Susanne Sokolow, a disease ecologist at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station
rRVPd TIL of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, used by the government to control the weather on demand. Examples include creating real snowfall for New Years Day and moving clouds away from the Olympic Stadium to prevent rain by firing chemicals into the sky.
dDDQQ TIL the USA is not a young country anymore. Independence in 1776 makes it older than about two-thirds of the 195 sovereign states recognised by the UN.
VlDk TIL that 10 Syrian Pound coins are so similar to Norway’s 20 krone coins in weight that vending machines cannot tell the difference. Posten Norge had to close many of their coin-to-cash machines because of this. 20 krone is worth about 45 times more than 10 SP.
ZpbMa TIL that for 30 years Garfield-shaped novelty phones kept washing up on beaches in Brittany, France — and the source was finally found to be a broken shipping container wedged inside a sea cave since the 1980s.