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TIL NYC has a secret, off-limits island graveyard that is home to over 1 million bodies.

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p8LaN TIL Indonesia is the world’s largest island nation it contains thousands and thousands of islands. Indonesia has so many islands it has never been able to fully count or name them. Indonesia is embarking on an ambitious island census to count the islands and registering their names.
gMAo8 TIL that certain states have laws which allow you to redeem gift cards for cash
Ool74 TIL that striped skunk’s binomial name (Mephitis mephitis) essentially means “stinky stinky” in Latin
b9vd7 Nero, Stalin and Bin Laden were all fans, but what makes verse so appealing to these leaders? Benjamin Ramm explores the connection between ruthlessness and sentimentality.
e0lJE TIL A species of Salamander called the Tiger Salamander have a unique way of controlling the population within their little society. If they sense their population has overgrown, they develop offspring with specially adapted heads and larger bodies to eat the larvae of their own species.