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TIL of Orania: South Africa's only remaining whites only town

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W7YXY TIL that the doctor who helped deliver Dolly Parton was paid, by her father, with a bag of cornmeal
9Por TIL The Mantis Shrimp delivers a punch so fast and deadly that its acceleration is 10,000 times greater than gravity and creates a pressure wave that boils the water around it.