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TIL The Luxor Casino's light has its own ecosystem

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b9lRj TIL of Hart Island, AKA “Island of the Dead”, off the coast of New York City. It’s the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world with over 1 million unclaimed bodies. The bodies are buried by prisoners from Rikers Island. All graves are unmarked. Nobody is allowed on.
4Xglb TIL In 2011, after their home was incorrectly foreclosed upon by Bank of America, a judge ordered the bank to pay the couple's legal fees. When it failed to pay, the couple successfully foreclosed upon the bank.
R7p18 TIL A bottle of Coca-Cola cost one nickel (5 cents) between 1886 and 1959. The price remained fixed with very little fluctuation. In 1953, Coca-Cola approached the US Treasury to request minting a 7.5 cent coin.
w1B8 TIL Comedian Spike Milligan’s wish to have his tomb stone read “I told you I was ill” was refused by the Chichester diocese. They compromised and wrote the same epitaph in Irish.
9YKAX TIL that in January 2009, an Al-Qaeda training camp in Algeria was reportedly wiped out by the plague.