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TIL How Bird Poop Built an Island Empire (and Destroyed It)

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0wloy TIL 100 million years ago, dinosaurs would get high by eating psychedelic fungi.
W7kgo TIL Pope Gregory XVI opposed gas lighting and railways, believing that they would create commerce and lead to liberal reforms. Gregory XVI in fact banned railways in the Papal States, calling them chemins d'enfer ("road to hell", a play on the French for railroad, chemin de fer, "iron road")
Brdrx TIL The Sun Perfectly Aligns with 5 Ellipses in 5 Pillars, representing each branch of the military, Illuminating the United States Seal, Every Year on Veterans Day at Exactly 11:11am
J1aB TIL the Three Wise Monkeys that represent the phrase “See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil” are named Mizaru, Kikazaru, and Iwazaru. There is also a lesser-known fourth Wise Monkey, named Shizaru, who represents “Doing no Evil”.
Ryra TIL that in 2005 Samantha Futerman played the role of a girl separated from her sister in the movie Memoirs of a Geisha. In 2013 Samantha was contacted by her own identical twin sister, Anaïs, who had discovered her on YouTube. Neither knew of each other because they had been separated at birth.