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TIL Pitcairn Islands are the least populated democratic nation in the world. Settled in 1789 by mutineers of the famous Mutiny on the Bounty, their descendants make up the bulk of the town's 50-ish residents. The wreck is even still visible underwater in Bounty Bay

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4XO6a TIL As of 2016, Marie Curie is the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific disciplines; Physics and Chemistry.
d8XWr TIL along with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was just as bad but often overlooked. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334 low-flying B-29 bombers.
GANE1 TIL India has a vast and rich (and unexplored) dinosaur fossil beds which is not even well known in India
gr9eW TIL The 10,000 ton London Bridge was dismantled and rebuilt in Lake Havasu, Arizona
pP5Q TIL that Henry Kissinger said, “Military Men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in Foreign Policy” and has not denied this quote to this day.