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TIL of the Guano Islands Act from 1856 which the US used to lay claim to 100 unpopulated islands

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7rReM TIL that a Maine restaurant will only take reservations by mail and not a phone, email or app after Boston Globe’s food critic once declared it “best Maine restaurant you may never be able to eat at.” Your sole option: snail-mailing them a letter with your name and contact info.
Y7jpB TIL Frederick Douglas did not know his actual birthday, so he chose Feb 14, because his mother referred to him as her little Valentine.
OG5vR TIL about he Hairy Frog, also known as the Wolverine Frog. When threatened, it breaks it's own toe bones so that the sharp ends stick out of it's toes like the X-men's Wolverines claws. The toe bones eventually retract and grow back in place as the tissue heals over the hole.
b6gXQ TIL about the My Lai Massacre. Where The US Army Murdered an estimated 500 Unarmed Civilians
4XOLw TIL of "Hauntology" a philosophical concept explaining "contemporary culture's persistent recycling of retro aesthetics and incapacity to escape old social forms" as a "nostalgia for lost futures."