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TIL Iceland has Europe's largest banana plantation

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6Y0Y TIL it costs $88,000 per year to keep a minor incarcerated but only $12,500 per year to educate them in public schools.
VBJkG TIL there was a girl who locked alone in a room for most of her first thirteen years, who never successfully learned a language. She is now 56 years old.
yQmvp TIL some of the actors playing zombies in 1978's "Dawn of the Dead" were drunk, regularly going to nearby bar while they waited for filming to begin. Some even jumped on a golf cart and crashed it into a pillar, causing thousands of dollars in damage.
woPZW TIL Eldey island supported the last remnant population of the great auks. Museums, desiring the skins of the auk for preservation and display, began collecting birds. The last pair, were killed there in 1844, when they were strangled and the last egg of the species was cracked during the struggle.
kR4 TIL the average person doesn’t know the opposites of the following words: Always, Coming, From, Take, Me, Down…