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TIL it rains spiders in Australia

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yVyDv TIL about Laura Dekker, a Dutch sailor who at the age of 16 became the youngest person to sail around the world.
GeLE TIL in 1968 a man built an island off the coast of Italy and declared himself the President. He ran a restaurant, a bar, a nightclub, and a post office on the island. The Italian government didn’t like this, seized control of the island, and literally blew it up the next year.
ogKR TIL researchers secretly recorded patients and doctors, and found that 41% of cases had ‘contextual’ errors or red flags that were not accounted for in treatment plans
v1D84 TIL that out of more than 100 billion people who have lived and died on earth, only 24 have the first hand experience of seeing full circle of earth from space.
OoE6 TIL Jay-Z allegedly stabbed a record executive in 1999 and received 3 years probation.