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TIL Karl Marx’s grave has an entry fee
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TIL the US has a population density of only 34 people per square kilometer. By comparison the Netherlands has a density of 457 per km and Bangladesh is at 1087 per km. If the US had the same density as Bangladesh there would be a staggering 10.5 Billion Americans.
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TIL That former Reddit co-owner Aaron Swartz persistently hacked into JSTOR, an on-line archive of academic journals, to open access to the public. His endeavors included hard-wiring himself into the MIT network to assign himself 2 ip addresses.
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TIL on 1969 the pilot Pete Matthes was declared missing in action in the Vietnam War. In 1978 he was declared killed in action. In 1992 Pete’s secret pilot authenticator code was detected from a satellite photo outside Dong Vai prison in North Vietnam. His Body never was found.
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TIL That David Bowie Was Bisexual And Slept With Plenty Of Men, One Of Which Was Mick Jagger
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TIL that Miley Cyrus’s first job was to pick up the bras and the underwear that her dad’s fans (country singer Billy Ray) threw on the stage. She got paid $10 for it.