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TIL that pumice can form free-floating rafts so large that they can be mistaken for islands and that animals can migrate between landmasses on them.

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ZpxLp TIL that when casting the 1978 Superman film, DC approved the following people to play Superman: Muhammad Ali, Al Pacino, James Caan, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood and Dustin Hoffman.
Me8Jb TIL that in 1672, angry Dutchmen killed and ate their prime minister
XEXk6 TIL about the Icarians, a French-based utopian socialist movement in the United States, established by the followers of politician and journalist Étienne Cabet, who invented the word "communism" in 1839.
xnXk TIL that last summer the city of Albuquerque started paying the homeless to clean up abandoned homeless camps around the city. The participants must work hard and on average five to six hours a day. In return they get $9 an hour plus a lunch of sandwiches, chips and granola bars
1LR4 TIL that due to thousands of different commercial glitters, identical glitter particles can be compelling evidence that a suspect has been at a crime scene.