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TIL: there is an island where pre-Neolithic people still live. They attack anybody that tries to meet them.

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X0gdD TIL of Cri du chat syndrome which is a rare genetic disorder that affects 1 in 50,000 children; its name comes from the French for "cry of the cat" as the cries of affected infants are similar to that of a meowing kitten due to problems with the larynx and nervous system
kOOp1 TIL that in 1984 a man escaped the Iron Curtain by flying a self-built aircraft across the Czechoslovakian border
5Ylm9 TIL that a lawyer defending a man accused of murder accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared.
9YJAD TIL - Companies can be affected by the names of other organizations and it is called Damaging Doppelgangers.
dxOr TIL The Nation of Islam teaches that its founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad, boarded a UFO when he disappeared in 1934.