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TIL that you can contract Leprosy from armadillos

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6pG7 TIL that in the 60s the US struck a deal with the UK to buy an unpopulated Indian ocean island for a military base. The UK didn’t have an unpopulated island, so it forcibly expelled the inhabitants of the British Indian Ocean Territory until it WAS uninhabited.
j64NN TIL of the "Order of the Occult hand," a secret society of journalists that slip the meaningless and telltale phrase "It was as if some occult hand had…" in print as an inside joke.
W0P4 TIL that the movie Scarface has won NO awards and has even been nominated for a Razzie.
8ePXX TIL manuscripts maintained by double cloisters where monks and nuns allied together and physically located next to each other had more repairs done to parchment (skin) tears and holes than standalone cloisters. Some repairs used the parchment holes as a starting point for illustrations
wLX1Y TIL The father of modern policing was a former criminal turned detective who refused to arrest anyone who stole out of necessity.