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TIL there’s a random island off of the east coast of Canada called Random Island.

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Lk800 TIL Dax Cowart was injured in a propane gas explosion, burning his entire body except the soles of his feet, suffering hearing loss, and the loss of his hands and eyes. He went on to earn a law degree, advocating for patients right to die.
bAeN TIL “Mele Kalikimaka,” the Hawaiian phrase for “Merry Christmas,” is actually just a phonetic attempt to say the English phrase using the palette of sounds available in the Hawaiian language.
VB7Km TIL that rubbing chopsticks together after breaking them apart is considered rude, especially in Japan
e5bJ TIL of Hero ants. These ants live in cliffs/high places and latch onto intruders of the colony. They then fling themselves off the cliff, taking the intruder with them.
7VVL TIL in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where undergraduate student were humiliated and subjected to “brutalizing psychological experiments”. The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber.