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Today I learned Bout Mount Key, an artificial island build by the Calusa, made from discarded seashells

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Z8md4 TIL that the Oneida Community, a religious communal society in which older women acted as sexual "mentors" to adolescent boys, eventually dissolved and became a silverware company that is still in business today
78EgM TIL your zodiac sign is probably wrong. They were created over 3,000 years ago. The earth’s tilt has changed since then so the constellations appear in completely different positions in the sky.
XJWP TIL there is a Wikepedia page entirely dedicated to compiling a list of successful Rickrolls
D1Lop TIL Shavarsh Karapetyan dove into freezing water to rescue passengers from a sunken trolleybus, caught pneumonia ending his career as an Olympic swimmer and then saved people from a burning building
Y7xxP TIL the worst serial killer--Luis Garavito--had 193 confirmed victims. He died of eye cancer in October.