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TIL about Labadee, a Royal Caribbean owned private beach resort in Haiti complete with a 30 foot wall and armed guards on each side isolating it from the rest of the country. Tourists arrive at a port connected to the resort and never go beyond the boundaries of the resort.

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LQWJ0 TIL of Karel Soucek, who successfully went over Niagara Falls in a barrel and planned a museum about his stunt. To fund it he performed a stunt in which, inside a barrel, he would fall 180 feet from the roof of the Houston Astrodome into a water tank. The barrel hit the rim of the tank, killing him.
oBQRY TIL there are only 15 countries (sovereign states, not dependencies) in the world without official armed forces. Out of these, 12 are islands. Only Andorra, Vatican City, and Liechtenstein are located on mainland. The largest population is held by the Solomon Islands with a little over 650,000.
DJQr TIL in 1992, 28000 rubber ducks fell off a shipping container in the Pacific and revolutionized our understanding of ocean circulation
MeVna TIL Abraham Lincoln was once challenged to a duel by a political adversary. Lincoln accepted. Instead of pistols Lincoln chose swords instead of pistols. Friends intervened and it ended bloodlessly. Lincoln and his opponent laughed it off as being silly and became lifelong friends.
4GRw TIL that there was a church of Euthanasia whose motto was “Save the planet, kill yourself”.