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TIL the British Government forcibly deported a whole population out of an island to make way for a US military base

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bw17 TIL Japan has a museum devoted entirely to rocks that look like faces. There are over 1,700 rocks on display, and they include rocks that look like E.T. and Elvis Presley.
4LMw TIL The Berry case was not Sylvia Browne’s most horrific prediction. “Browne did a reading for [Erica’s] mother, saying she was in water and someone named “Chris” killed her. The following day, Erica’s ex-boyfriend, Chris Mineer, killed himself.”
e0JLD TIL that during the 1970s the Communist government of North Korea kidnapped foreign women to provide potential wifes for the American defectors, to prevent them from marrying ethnically Korean women and having mixed children
XVZ8 TIL, In 2007 Comcast installed software/equipment on its networks to selectively interfere with customers’ TCP/IP connections which throttled upstream p2p bandwidth
KON6w TIL that Romania is the country with the highest rate of home ownership in he world: more than 96% of the population owns a house or an apartment. At the beginning of the 1990s, after the fall of the Communist party, the state sold each tenant the house he or she occupied at a very low cost.