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TIL that diabetics can donate their urine to be turned into whiskey suitable for export

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oBAyA Today i learned that you can buy 13 metric tons of bread for 16,250 pounds in birmingham.
knYd TIL that a building called Blok P once housed 1% of Greenland’s population. It was advertised to tourists as “so depressing that it’s almost an attraction in itself.”
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