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TIL that around 1,000 homeless people live in flood tunnels under Las Vegas

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NX4kJ TIL that the highest point in the Netherlands is Mount Scenery, located in the Caribbean.
0dg0M TIL that Admiral Nelson's Spanish opponent at the Battle of Trafalgar, Federico Gravina said "I am a dying man, but I die happy; I am going, I hope and trust, to join Nelson, the greatest hero that the world perhaps has produced." while dying from wounds sustained during the battle
GEQg TIL at 13, Molly Kelly an Aboriginal girl was forcibly removed from her family and sent to a government institution to become a domestic servant. She escaped and walked 1000 miles home across the outback. From 1905-1971 Australian authorities forcibly removed thousands of indigenous children
oBnDY TIL there is an inland island in Canada that is larger in area than the lake in which it is situated.
nW6Ob TIL there is an 800sq mi chunk of land between Egypt and Sudan that is claimed by nobody