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TIL there’s an island called Just Enough Room where there’s just enough room for a house and a tree.

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kOZZE TIL of the Karen people, an "ethnolinguistic group" of millions, living in Myanmar, Thailand, and other Asian countries. They speak diverse Karen languages and some have been at war with the Burmese government for nearly 70 years.
o0aA TIL that a family organized a fake kidnap of their 6 years old kid to scare him, because they thought he was “too nice”
ANXWo TIL that there is a collection of counterintuitive mathematical objects called "pathological objects" that mathematicians commonly use to disprove conjectures or provide exceptions.
kJxjm TIL US Federal Law does not require that companies give any breaks whatsoever to workers
wovpM TIL In 1845 a tornado in France killed 75 people.