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Today I learned there's an island off Madagascar called Nosy Be, the chief city being Hell-Ville

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kOa7B TIL in 1992, a retiree was out searching for a lost hammer with a metal detector. During his search he found a huge cache of Roman treasure, including 15,234 coins. The British government gave him and the owner of the land £1.75 million for finding it. Later on, he also found the hammer
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