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TIL William Shatner sold his kidney stone for $25,000 to raise money for a housing charity

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0BjA TIL England has an ‘inception village.’ One of the main attractions of Bourton-on-the-Water is a tiny scale model of itself, inside a scale model of itself, inside a scale model of itself, inside a scale model of itself.
d8bk8 TIL of the Future Library Project which includes 100 works of literature to remain unread and unpublished until 2114. A thousand trees were planed in 2014 to supply the paper for the anthologies of these works. Each year a new notable author is chosen, most recently Ocean Vuong.
WkLJN TIL that Ukraine means "borderland" in both Russian and Polish.
Br8WW TIL that there was a sea otter with asthma who learned how to use a puffer
mxG1p TIL in 1965. 6 boys from a catholic school were shipwrecked on a deserted island named 'Ata after a storm took their stolen boat out to sea for 8 days. They found the ruins of Kolomaile, a 19th century village in a volcanic crater, surviving off feral chickens, wild taro and banana for 15 months,