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TIL London once boasted a 7.5 acre human poop dump called Mount Pleasant

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Ydkx TIL in 2013 a 65-year-old Seattle woman set out to fast for 100 days in order to prove that humans can sustain themselves solely on air, water, and light. She ended her experiment after 47 days.
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lOZA TIL that there are sea nomads, whole tribes of people who spend almost all of their lives at sea.
ALRB TIL an adopted man in Michigan searched for his birth mother for 4 years before finding out that she worked at the same Lowe’s store that he worked at. Neither of them knew.
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