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TIL in 1968 a man built an island off the coast of Italy and declared himself the President. He ran a restaurant, a bar, a nightclub, and a post office on the island. The Italian government didn’t like this, seized control of the island, and literally blew it up the next year.

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oRenW TIL about Okinotorishima, a Japanese island located in the middle of the Pacific which is administered by the Tokyo Prefecture
Wk7GL TIL pollution from PCBs is causing weakened penis bones in polar bears, although no evidence that this is causing broken polar bear penises has been found as of this date
loZD7 TIL Paul Stanley of KISS starred in a 2000 Folgers ad that never actually aired because focus groups asked “Who is the old, creepy guy?”
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JVmm TIL Lyndon Johnson liked to scare visitors to his ranch by driving his amphibious car downhill into a lake while shouting “The brakes don’t work! The brakes won’t hold! We’re going in! We’re going under!”