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

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DNdg TIL Scotch tape has an unusual property. When placed in a vacuum chamber, unpeeling a length of tape from the roll will produce an enormous amount of X-ray radiation. The reason why it does this isn’t well understood.
VMEOB TIL In Norway, to change your surname to one that 200 or fewer people have, you must ask from permission from everyone who has that name
E1odd TIL any adult canadian can send cannabis thru canada post up to 28 grams to another canadian adult anywhere in canada
VGOD TIL serial killer Amelia Dyer, suspected of killing as many as 400 infants and children was hanged on this date in 1896 in London.
LQgpm TIL The tallest dam on earth, the Usoi Dam, is not man-made. The dam is a landslide from the 1911 Sarez earthquake that blocked the Murghab River in Tajikistan. In 2015 the dam survived a 7.2 magnitude earthquake with no signs of deterioration.