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TIL that Kalawao County, Hawaii is the smallest county in the US in terms of land size (12 sq. mi. of land) and one of the least populated (approx. 90 people). It was a quarantine settlement for people with Hansen's Disease (leprosy).

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yrLe TIL that a woman accidentally dropped her engagement ring into a homeless man’s change cup. The man, Billy Ray Harris, returned the ring to the woman. A fund was started by the woman and her husband to raise money for Harris. Three months later they had raised over $190,000.
4X6lR TIL that President Ronald Reagan's first official White House doctor called his job "vastly overrated, boring and not medically challenging." He could not attend most state dinners due to lack of space but had to be ready for emergencies, usually waiting alone in his office wearing a tuxedo.
0XoL TIL that when no trees were available, whalers would burn penguins to boil down whale blubber into oil.
W7NL4 TIL that the Asian Weaver ant is consumed as a delicacy in Thailand.
aw9ry TIL that the US once fed information to the USSR about an extremely deadly nerve gas called "GJ" that was nearly impossible to create. Although initially intended to waste Soviet resources on a wild goose chase, the project to replicate "GJ" ended up producing the now-infamous Novichok agents.