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TIL that A tablespoon of soil has more living organisms than there are people on Earth right now.

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4ola TIL an artist in a small village in Japan have been creating life-sized dolls in place of deceased residents for the last 10 years. Today, the number of life-sized dolls outnumbers the village residents 10-to-1.
9kP6 TIL that as late as the 19th century as many as 2,000 families a day were evicted from their homes in Scotland. Many froze or starved to death where their homes had been.
4ZvR TIL Speedy Gonzales was banned by Cartoon Network for being an offensive stereotype, only to be returned after mass protest by the hispanic-american community.
rRG6d TIL the most successful and feared allied spy of WWII, Virginia Hall, was an American woman with a prosthetic leg. She escaped France on foot through the Pyrenees mts, re-entered before D Day, and organized havoc behind the Nazi lines.
epmmD TIL Mandi Tribe in Bangladesh practices father-daughter marriage