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TIL coconut crabs are suspected of hiding Amelia Earhart’s remains.

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X0Jer TIL that a study in 2010 in the UK found that "overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug...with heroin...and crack cocaine" in 2nd & 3rd places.
RWDl TIL Kuman Thong (golden young boy), is a dry roasted still-born baby covered in gold leaf and worshipped as an amulet in ancient Thailand. It is illegal now, but sometimes people still make them.
nBxW TIL in the add-on ‘Lonesome Road’ for the game 'Fallout: New Vegas’ there’s a fossilized dog statue that you can pick up named “Seymour”. It’s an Easter Egg to Fry’s dog of the episode 'Jurassic Bark’ in Futurama.
16G8 TIL There’s a bullied special needs girl in Arizona being protected by her high school’s football team.
OoJQg TIL that During the early Middle Ages, almost every scholar thought the Earth was round, not flat. The myth that they thought earth is flat back, picked up steam in the 1800s, right around the same time the idea of evolution was rising in prominence — and religious and scientific interests clashed.