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TIL South Australia is the only place in the world where a flavoured milk drink outsells Coca-Cola by triple the amount

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k0g1 TIL that in 2005, the DEA reported seizing $477 million worth of drugs, whereas the estimated value of drugs sold within and into the US is $64 billion dollars. This makes the efficiency rate of the DEA less than 1% at curtailing US drug trade.
OokdL TIL that Argentina tried to sink a British warship in Gibraltar during the Falklands War in 1982
wLWG1 TIL that if you drop a thimble-full of Bitrex "the most bitter substance in the world" into an Olympic swimming pool and you can detect the bitterness in those two and a half million litres of water.
eEaE TIL that a Lemonade Tree is a real thing, and it bears fruit that naturally tastes like lemonade.
a8wA9 TIL about the "Pilate Stone," a damaged block of carved limestone with a partially intact inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate, a prefect of the Roman province of Judea from AD 26 to 36.