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TIL of the island nation of Diego Garcia whose people were expelled by the British in 1971 and forced to live in Mauritian slums, just so that the US could build a military base on the island

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E1R5d TIL Despite being a devout Christian, Chuck Norris has an illegitimate daughter from an affair during his first marriage and he didn't meet her until she was 26 years old.
b1ZE TIL a girl left her contacts in for six months and amoeba ate her eyes
Y76QZ TIL art used to be a medal competition at the Olympics between 1918 to 1948 and only stopped because most of the contestants were professionals and not the required amateurs.
WkegN TIL: about The Axis of Evil, an anomaly in astronomical observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background that gives the location of Earth a greater significance than expected by chance. It appears to suggest that our solar system is the center of the entire universe.
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