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TIL there is an island in Ethiopia where Christian Ethiopians claim to have kept the Ark of Covenant for thousands of years. It is watched over by a single man with no name known as the "Guardian" and no woman are allowed on the island for fear of "stirring the passions" of the virgins on the island

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p8l8N TIL James Dean's Porsche "Little Bastard" was believed to be cursed. There were a series of deaths/injuries following Dean's fatal accident; one of which involved the wrecked car falling off a flatbed and crushing the driver. The accidents continued until the wreckage disappeared during transport.
16JlX TIL after the American Revolution the -ville suffix became popular in the names of new US settlements due to an increase of pro-French sentiments.
R7lp9 TIL that in 1859 the sun caused a solar storm on earth.The storm was so powerful that aurora was seen as south as Mexico, and Telegraphs systems all over Europe and North America failed to operate.
9YgnB TIL Kate Winslet had a chart-topping song in 2001 titled, “What If.”
6MoQ TIL that Washington state did not officially ban sex with animals until 2005. The impetus for the ban was the highly publicized death of a man who ruptured his colon during anal sex with a horse at an animal brothel.