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

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Br6vW TIL The LIGO gravitational wave detector can detect a change in a 4km beam of less than 1/10,000 the diameter of a proton.
LQkkP TIL Phil Collins has a lifelong interest in the Battle of the Alamo, and owns one of the largest private collections of Alamo artifacts.
N901 TIL Famed dentist Painless Parker (who wore a necklace of teeth) & his Dental Circus lured naive patients by promising that the 50c extraction would be painless, or he’d pay $5. Screams of agony were drowned by a brass band while the audience was distracted, enjoying contortionists & dancing women.
98K7 TIL that the Catholic church owns a billion dollar media firm that sells pornography and erotica.
oNBE TIL In 1674, Manhattan was traded from the Dutch to the English for Run Island, an island in Indonesia which is now nearly uninhabited.