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TIL the capital of Montserrat is Plymouth - a ghost town.
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TIL Jackie Kennedy once wrote an essay to Vogue for a competition, where the winner would win an editor position for six months in New York and six months in Paris. Out of more than 1,200 entries her essay won, but she quit on her first day.
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TIL: with regards to health, obesity is a far more widespread threat than malnutrition.
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TIL Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, predicted in a 1995 InfoWorld article that the Internet would "catastrophically collapse" in 1996, and promising to "eat his words" if wrong. In 1997, he put his article in a blender and drank it at the International World Wide Web Conference.
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TIL in 2009, Harry Connick Jr. was a guest on an Australian talent show where a blackface skit received roaring approval from the crowd. Shocked, he gave the act a 0 and later said had he known about the skit in advance, he wouldn’t have been on the show.
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TIL that there are at least 11 extinct animal species which were photographed before their extinction.