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TIL Santa Cruz del Islote is the most densely populated island in the world

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VMOAm TIL, the Pole of Inaccessibility refers to the most distant point from the coastline of any given country or continent.
pYGxp TIL King Frederick II took 5 babies from their families and deprived them of being talked to or even played with to figure out what language Adam and Eve spoke in the garden of Eden. He thought it was either Greek, Latin, Arabic, or Hebrew.
NXdkb TIL Caesar Salad originated in the 1920s from Tijuana, Mexico!
9w0LG TIL Timor-Leste is the most Christian country in the world. Over 99.5% of its 1.4 million people identify as Christians.
Xg68 TIL that in 1961, Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first American in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”