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TIL that The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.

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om88 TIL there is a company that sells ridiculously expensive mobile phones with the cheapest being about $9000
kLrB TIL half of the firefighters battling California wildfires are prisoners in California jails
R5Kpl TIL that Malaysian Malays must be a Muslim according to it’s government’s constitution
e07mJ TIL Candace Newmaker, a child with "behavioral problems," was taken from her birth parents, adopted, and placed in controversial "rebirth therapy"... she was suffocated for 70 minutes and declared brain-dead afterwards
xVNBg TIL that Killifish eggs can survive a trip through a bird's digestive system, spreading the fish to other places when the birds poop them out.