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TIL Patrick Stewart will be running the Olympic torch through my home town.

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woKBE TIL it is illegal for you to pump your own gas in Oregon and New Jersey.
wLa87 TIL thirty Indonesian women colonized Madagascar over one thousand years ago
N45N TIL that a floating British base was abandoned until a rogue DJ moved there. He declared the floating fortress the Principality of Sealand. He raised a flag, named himself Prince and his wife Princess. Sealand withstood court challenges, and remains an independent nation to this day.
wonpW TIL I learn about underwater logging (e.g., after flooding a forested valley for a dam project) and that there are harvester robots like the Sawfish Harvester that were invented exclusively for this kind of operation
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