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TIL that octopuses often collect trinkets and will plunder coins from ancient shipwrecks to fill their homes with

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kONmB TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev is still alive
QvNE TIL The English town of Sandwich is 1.5 miles away from the village of Ham.
mxnbY TIL that the government of Denmark recreated their country, block by block, in Minecraft. However, some vandals broke into the server and blew everything up, leaving behind US flags in the craters.
6mk8 TIL that when people die in huge crowd ‘stampedes’, it’s rarely from being trampled, it’s from being crushed and suffocated (while still standing) by densely packed bodies.
vPmQ4 TIL in 2015 ICE set up the University of Farmington, a fake university as a sting operation to catch students illegally extending their visas. They charged the students thousands of dollars, deported them, and kept the money.