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

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NXVL6 TIL the Wayne Gretzky trade from Edmonton to the LA Kings yielded a "Trade Tree" that lasted 34 years (i.e. the players and draft picks Gretzky was traded for in 1988 spawned their own trades and draft picks over the years, with the final player leaving the NHL before this current season.)
jrwX TIL FPSRussia’s house was once raided by 40 plus ATF and FBI agents.
XEE7R TIL that Yates County, New York is the third least populated county in the state.
1a5Nr TIL the reason we know what cyanide tastes like is because an Indian man, MP Prasad who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste. "Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid," he wrote, solving a long unanswered question.
EgdYx TIL that "death masks" (casts made of a person's face after they died) were worn by actors and paid mourners at the person's own funeral. At one funeral, 6000 people were wearing the dead person's face mask.