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TIL It costs $12,500 to deport a single illegal immigrant in the United States.

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OEv4 TIL For nearly a century, the French have prohibited entry into an area of more than 460 square miles because there is an almost impossible amount of ammunition and dead bodies to recover from the battlefield’s of World War One. The area is called “Zone Rouge”, and much of it is still off limits
grx1X TIL that "forest" derives from the Latin "foris". It originally referred to "outside woods" - woods beyond the walls of a park or settlement.
WjMB TIL Oil is cheaper than water in Venezuela.
GA9ag TIL of Albert Stevens, who was part of an experiment where he was unknowingly injected with radioactive plutonium after being diagnosed with cancer, ultimately for doctors to find that he never actually had cancer
vPYrD TIL that the tab on your rear view mirror can be flipped for night time driving.