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TIL Larry Ellison founder of oracle owns 98% of the sixth biggest Hawaiian island, Lānaʻi

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yVX8a TIL The beautiful sand beaches of the Maldives are made out of up to 85% poo by the Parrot fish. One Parrot fish alone can create up to 500kg of sand per year!
W7JVY TIL a person called Andreas Mihavec holds the record of surviving the longest without any food or liquids. He was forgotten in a basement jail cell in Austria in 1979.
Vj5m TIL Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech in Bloomington, Illinois so captivating that it caused every single reporter present to forget to take notes. There is no copy of this speech in existence, and we can only guess at the content. This speech is known as Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Lost Speech’.
M5G0 TIL that if players pirated the video game “Game Dev Tycoon” - a game where the goal is to create and sell video games for profit - their in-game games get massively pirated which renders it unplayable.
9wDYQ TIL that IHOP actually stands for International House of Pancakes