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TIL Naukan is a deserted Yupik village in Russia, once the easternmost settlement in the Eurasian continent. The eviction of the 400 indigenous inhabitants took place in 1954 with the objective of a possible military confrontation with the United States

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4Nd6 TIL That a company called The SeaStead Institute is trying to establish permanent autonomous ocean communities to enable social, political and legal system experiments. They plan on launching their first island 2014 and had recieved 500 000 dollar donation by a Co founder of PayPal
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pY09Q TIL about primordial black holes (PBHs), hypothesized to have formed in the early universe; some small extra-dense spots collapsed into black holes as everything expanded and cooled down. It's also been hypothesized that dark matter, which constitutes 85% of the universe's mass, is made up of PBHs.
GY7B5 TIL JFK’s daughter was secretly gifted the puppy of the first Russian dog in space as part of a series of secret daily correspondence between JFK and Khrushchev. The dog then proceeded to bite every Kennedy family member.