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TIL Gunkanjima is an abandoned island near Nagasaki. Once densely populated with 5,000 residents on 0.072 km2, the island town was mainly a coal mine operation until 1974 when operations ceased. Typhoons have caused structures to slowly deteriorate, further emphasizing the atmosphere of abandonment

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nelYY TIL Though offered a scholarship to Princeton, Ralph Nader's father forced him to decline the offer on the grounds that the family was able to pay Nader's tuition and the funds should go to a student who could not afford it. Nader graduated magna cum laude in 1955.
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