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Himalayan pink salt at a Brazilian flea market

  • ... that Himalayan pink salt (pictured) does not actually come from the Himalayas, but from the Salt Range mountains in Punjab, Pakistan?
  • ... that Rosalynn Carter was the first First Lady of the United States to have her own office and staff at the White House?
  • ... that some new plastics are being made without oil, such as with plants and bacteria, to make them biodegradable?
  • ... that after South Vietnam fell, Henry Kissinger offered to return his Nobel Peace Prize, eighteen months after he received it for his work in the Paris Peace Accords?
  • ... that Canada has become the first G7 nation to make cannabis legal?
  • ... that businessman Lee Miglin proposed a 1,999 foot 125-floor skyscraper in Chicago, but the project was cancelled after he was killed by Gianni Versace's killer Andrew Cunanan?
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