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TIL that Bull Island a 15KM^2 landmass in Dublin bay is an accidental man made island. Which began forming after two large sea walls were built in the 18th/19th century.

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b9K8j TIL: Sculptor Selma Burke, a black woman, never received credit for her portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which was later adapted and featured on the US dime. It is widely accepted that the white John R. Sinnock's obverse design on the Roosevelt dime was adapted from Burke's work.
LQxMV Today I learned that the lyrics of "baby owl" are actually the lyrics of "baby i'll rule"
9Yek6 TIL that psychedelics increase nature relatedness and can make you go from Egoism to Ecoism.
1KM4 TIL the world’s longest burning fire is 6000 years old
e0844 TIL that the most expensive medicinal drug ever is Zolgensma (produced by Novartis), which costs $2.125 million for a single dose. The drug is a gene therapy, taken as a one-time treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disorder (about 30 babies are born each month with the disease)