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

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OoGve TIL a Japanese professor searching to find out what happened to Einstein's brain discovered that it was being kept in a mason jar by a retiree in Kansas, who would occasionally shave off slices with a kitchen knife and mail it to people if they asked for some of it
8eaKb TIL about billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney, who has given away more than $8 billion and now lives in a rented apartment with a remaining balance of $2 million.
69r6J TIL a Japanese postmaster under investigation for embezzlement deployed three suicide attempts in succession before succeeding: hanging himself, leaping off a cliff, then drowning.
eLXb TIL: The city of Melbourne was almost called “Batmania”, after one of it’s founding fathers: John Batman.
8aABL TIL that Ligers [Lion+Tiger hybrids] aren't sterile. In fact, there's a 2nd gen hybrid species called Liligers, which are bred from a female Liger and a male Lion. While ligers often inherit the sandy coloring and stripes of its parentage, liligers often develop rosettes similar to a leopard.