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TIL: Point Nemo is the satellite landfill

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W7wDN TIL 95% of built spaces are considered Vernacular architecture. Vernacular architecture uses local tradition, adaption, and materials rather than a formal architectural style.
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mRgp TIL that the Norse people carried their dead through a “corpse door” feet first so the corpse couldn’t see where it was going. Preventing the dead from returning.
jNXXX TIL about Typhoid Mary; a cook identified as a carrier with no symptoms of Typhoid Fever, who infected over 50 people and killed three. She was forcibly quarantined for nearly 30 years.
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