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TIL that Bermuda has no natural water source. Each house collects rainwater using white, stepped roofs.

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grmNX TIL: In the 18th century, wealthy landowners in England employed ornamental hermits to live in seclusion on their estates as a novelty and form of entertainment for visitors
awVBN TIL Charles Darwin was a member of The Glutton Club at Cambridge which met weekly to eat “birds and beasts, which were before unknown to the human palate”. He also regularly ate some of the animals he discovered in his travels including puma, armadillos, and his famous giant Galapagos tortoises.
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