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TIL that there's a museum in Japan that's dedicated to rocks that look like human faces!

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Bx0W TIL there is an island the size of Manhattan in the Bay of Bengal whose inhabitants have had almost no contact with the outside world. It may be the last such place on earth.
R70e6 TIL of Sigurd the Mighty, a Viking earl who after decapitating his enemy Mael the Bucktoothed was cut on the leg by the severed head and died from an infection as a result
oB80Y TIL Lonzo Ball admitted his injuries with the Lakers were due to his own $495 Big Baller Brand shoes. “And it’s crazy because right when I’d switch my shoes, and then all of a sudden I got good again.”
LkMRZ TIL - The Alaskan town of Glacier View doesn’t get dark enough for fireworks on the 4th. Instead, they drive cars off a cliff.
0dw7A TIL Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the first female elected to Congress (1916). A suffragist who helped get the 19th Amendment passed, was a staunch pacifist, opposing WW1, WW2, and was out marching in protest against Vietnam when she was 61 years old. A badass.