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TIL that the smallest Hawaiian Island, widely known as The Forbidden Isle, is owned by two brothers that inherited from their great-great-grandmother who purchased it from King Kamehameha V for $10,000 in gold. They have turned down all offers to sell it including $1 billion from the U.S. government

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N7W5N TIL the first vasectomy done for non-medical reasons was performed in the US in 1899 on a nineteen-year-old inmate in Indiana because he complained of “excessive masturbation." The doctor reported the inmate "became more of a sunny disposition, brighter of intellect and ceased to masturbate.”
j6Zbp TIL: The World's Biggest Spider is the Goliath Birdeater, with a leg span of up to 30 centimeters and a body length of up to 11 cm. Despite its name, it primarily eats insects but has been observed preying on small mammals, amphibians, and snakes.
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OoW4g Today I learned that the reason we have muscle cars from the 60's was because NASCAR banned engines that were not in production models so Plymouth in order to keep their big Hemi engines in racing, put them in regular stock vehicles giving us the big horsepower in those 60's hotrods.
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