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TIL the King of England once offered to convert England to Islam.

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jNWjN TIL acclaimed actor Sidney Poitier was born unexpectedly in Miami when his parents were visiting. He was two months early and not expected to survive. He was raised in the Bahamas and went on to be not only an Oscar winning actor but also the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan for over a decade.
JYxE8 TIL about “formaldehyde hunger” a well-known phenomenon in anatomy labs where med students get hungry while dissecting cadavers, allegedly due to formaldehyde being an appetite stimulant.
v1G7D TIL CBS created a show called Kid Nation (2007), where 40 kids ages 8-15 spent 40 days without direct adult supervision in a ghost town where they had to create a sustainable community
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D16ke TIL fat choy, the black moss traditionally eaten on Lunar New Years day contains a neurotoxin that is linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.