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TIL 15 human feet in shoes have washed up along the Pacific Northwest coast since August 2007.

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mjnP TIL a private walled city is being built in Guatemala. This self-contained haven for the wealthy boasts apartments, shops, nightclubs, boutiques and restaurants. Residences cost $260,000 to $800,000 each, in a country where the average citizen makes less than $300 a month.
N7K1b TIL: A farmer in Colorado paid $60K for the retired squad car of a deputy who was killed in the line of duty to gift the car to the deputy’s son.
LDEp TIL that understanding English actually hurts professional players of English scrabble; some of the world’s best Scrabble players are Thai and can’t speak English
NXX9b TIL about canopy piloting. A sport where you jump out of a helicopter to skim across a lake at a high speed.
6EDal TIL the Rosetta Stone was not meant as a way to translate hieroglyphics, it was a government document containing three languages (Hieroglyphics, Greek and Demotic) so that all the people of Egypt at the time could read it