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TIL About Buffalo City, NC. The once tight knit logging boomtown and “moonshine capital” was visited by FDR on a trip to Roanoke. Built in the middle of nowhere, they relied on alcohol-tourism during the 1920s & 30s, “mysteriously” turning ghost town after prohibition ended.

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VBrvG TIL Borkum, a North Sea island once completely bee-free, is now a prime location for controlled bee breeding due to its isolation.
xVVGk Of all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it burns at about 9,940°F, hot enough to incinerate just about any material. As such, there are no plans to send a manned mission in its direction anytime soon (Mars is much more interesting, anyway), but it can't hurt to figure out at what distance a person would want to turn back. You can get surprisingly close. The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, and if we think of that distance as a football field, a person starting at one end zone could get about 95 yards before burning up.
jYDn TIL in 2010 the owner of Segway Inc. died after accidentally driving his Segway off a cliff.
4k91o TIL that teenagers' brains are more tuned into unfamiliar voices than their mothers' voices. This shift occurs around ages 13-14 during puberty, helping teens expand their social connections beyond their family.
Xvjj TIL in Ancient Egypt, little people were well-respected and some were considered to be gods. The Egyptians were tolerant of of many medical disorders, and they thought that caring for all people was a moral duty.