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TIL That the U.S. has control over an island in the Indian Ocean which it got from the British who took it from Mauritius. It has a base on the island is named 'Footprint of Freedom' and the name of its camp is 'Camp Justice' while original inhabitants of the island are displaced from their homeland

oRg7L TIL It is impossible for a human to sink entirely into quicksand due to its higher density.
My88 TIL the FBI placed a GPS tracking device on a student’s car for his Reddit comments
j6yKa TIL that, in Ancient Rome, in 9 AD, under the Lex Papia Poppaea, celibate persons had to pay higher taxes and were banned from inheriting
dD8wB TIL that queen ants can live up to 30 years
ANJBa TIL the "taste bud mapping" we learned in school has been discredited for years and is still a mystery.