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TIL at over 16,000 ft., La Rinconada, Peru is the highest permanent settlement in the world. Surrounded by gold mines, the town has a population of 30,000 people. It has no running water or sewage system and has little to no government presence.

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Epwp TIL there is a common urban legend that there was no looting after the devastating 2011 earthquake in northern Japan. In fact, numerous ATMs were stripped and looted in the weeks following the earthquake.
0LDv TIL that in 2007, the US Navy helped rescue a North Korean ship from Somail pirates, resulting in a rare pro-American press statement in North Korea
ADZo4 TIL that James Gunn has a playlist of over 500 songs that he thinks Peter Quill's mother would have really liked and pulls from that list when he thinks a song would suit a scene. Disney has never rejected any of his songs.
M7GaB TIL in 2018, Scientists identified the earliest known animal in the geological record as a 558-million-year-old oval-shaped creature known as Dickinsonia that may have borne a superficial resemblance to a segmented jellyfish.
AkdB TIL the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. The RAF bombed the theater it was to have premiered in and later sunk the ship it was filmed on, resulting 3x the deaths as the Titanic.