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TIL that citizenship was granted to pollinators (bees, bats, hummingbirds, butterflies) in a suburb of Costa Rica's capital

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D1VDV TIL about Harald Hardrada. Exiled for 15 years after losing to Cnut The Great, he was a mercenary for the Kievan Rus', joined the Varangian Guard, became King of Norway and died at Stamford Bridge, ending the Viking Age.
rR9Go The National Hurricane Center is predicting storm surges anywhere from two to more than 11 feet high and this terrifying graphic from The Weather Channel shows the power and danger of Hurricane Florence.
xVjRb TIL North Korea is the only 'necrocracy' in the world – which means that it is the only country that is still under the rule of a dead leader.
NXbM1 TIL that you can contract Leprosy from armadillos
J1jjB TIL President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a farewell speech that warned the U.S citizens about a military industrial complex In 1961