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TIL that opium production in Afghanistan increased following the US invasion in October 2001

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wLEv7 TIL Scientists can use a person's own stem cells to make male eggs and female sperm. They have also successfully fertilized a male mouse with an egg cell made of its own cells, producing healthy offspring only from a single mouse's genome. So far, this has not been tested with humans.
KYVeR TIL we could have 4 traffic light colors
YO6A TIL of the ‘Secret War’, where the CIA recruited 50% of the Hmong population to fight for the US in the Vietnam War. Afterwards, they were completely abandoned.
69EQJ TIL Carthage in Phoenician means "New City". Cartagena (Spain) in Latin means "New Carthage". Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) was named 'de Indias' as it was named after Cartagena (Spain)—it can be interpreted as "New Cartagena". Therefore the city can basically be read as "New New New City"
E1b9w TIL that the name “Karen” (apart from its slang usage in the past few years) refers to an indigenous, primarily farming people living in villages on the border between Thailand and present-day Burma (Myanmar), as well as the languages they speak.