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TIL that during ww2 the Japanese had bombed the also un-contacted cousins of the Sentinelese people, the Jarawa people live nearby and they only established voluntary contact with outsiders in the 1990’s.

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ljQN TIL there was once a Viking king who ruled as the King of England…for about 5 weeks.
ZpJ4v TIL Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 is the final N64 game ever released in North America. It released August 20th, 2002.
9Y5p6 TIL "To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day" was the platform of the 1912 Bull Moose Party championed by former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt.
XEwgj TIL wind travelling at 15mph is breezy and has to travel at at least 25mph to be considered windy
R7GY7 TIL deep-water fish get the bends when they are reeled in too fast. Sports fishermen unintentionally kill millions of fish each year due to the condition called barotrauma.