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TIL the literal translation of Utopia means “Not a Place” rather than Eutopia which means “Good Place”

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dDwd8 TIL About Hart Island. Located in Long Island Sound the island has seen many uses including as a POW camp, as an anti-aircraft missile battery site and a drug rehab facility. However it's primary fame is as NYC's Potter's Field with an estimated one million burials having taken place there.
m1LjO TIL Beethoven kept his hearing loss a secret. He once wrote(but never send) a letter to his brother confessing it and explained that people mistakenly thought he was antisocial: he longed for human contact but became a recluse out of shame for his condition and all this made him contemplate suicide
G9gE TIL that over a period of 55 years Virginia forced the sterilization of thousands of people; it was so successful the nazis modeled their programs after it, and used it as a defense in the Nuremburg trials
XEJRE TIL that pet fur is good to leave out for birds who need nesting materials (as long as it has no flea treatment residue), but human hair is too long and causes them problems. Many animals and insects need help as habitats are shrinking globally.
Z8LYo TIL Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui studied agricultural economics in the United States at Iowa State University (M.A., 1953) and Cornell University (Ph.D., 1968). He served as a professor of economics and contributed much to Taiwan’s agricultural development