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TIL of a quarantined leper colony in Hawaii that, when the patients were cured, was made into an independent county where the patients could stay as residents. To this day no one under the age of 16 is allowed in, and the only visits allowed are officially sanctioned tours.

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gd68 TIL David Bowie said “In America especially, when I do ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ the amount of kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It’s cool you’re doing a Nirvana song.’ And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!’”
9wQV7 TIL the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 refers to a supposed newspaper article that said because of horses, in "50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure." It's an analogy for how new technologies (in this case cars) can take care of problems that seemed unsolvable.
oBZWK Ultra-endurance bicycle racer Lael Wilcox puts more miles on her bike every year than most people do on their cars. Here's how she trains for and rides some of the toughest races on earth.
nwkr TIL Bill Gates wrote his school’s computer program for scheduling students in their classes. He edited it so he would end up sitting with female students.
j6rQM TIL that there is virtually no difference between prescription antibiotics and OTC antibiotics for fish, the 2 can be used interchangeably in cases of emergency (please do not think that this is a good idea to do as misuse of antibiotics is the reason we're facing antibiotic resistant bacteria)