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TIL about the "Upside Down Boat Village" in France. Equihen-Plage, a former fishing village on the English Channel with a dry harbor, became a stranded port at the start of the 20th century. Poor families living in the village recovered the boat hulls to build makeshift shelters for themselves.

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EgEgp TIL the Liberty class cargo ship was mass produced by the United States to help win WWII. Made with antiquated, but easily manufactured technology they were built in record time. Of the 2710 ships made, only my 4 remain. Three are museums, while the fourth is a land locked canning facility.
Bnpb TIL : Two nurses hired within months of each other to work the same shift on the same floor at the same Florida hospital discovered they were long lost sisters from Korea, who had been separated for nearly 40 years.
ZYWR TIL that echolalia is the involuntary urge to imitate what someone else just said, the exact same way they just said it.
GYRP7 TIL that West Africans inherited 8% of their DNA from a “ghost” species, which helps protect them from cancer
KYj09 TIL that hippopotamuses are an invasive species in Colombia. Pablo Escobar brought four to his private zoo in the 70s, and after his death they escaped. Their population grew to around 100, earning them the nickname “cocaine hippos”