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TIL: A man rescued an abandoned baby to find out that he was the baby’s father.

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w97J TIL: A developer was denied a permit to put a sex club next to a Christian School so, They decided to decided to make it a “Swinger’s Church” because of a loophole in the law.
4XyQw TIL of the Chagossians, an ethnic group native to the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. In the 1970s, all of them were ethnically cleansed in able to build a US military base. In 2016, they were denied the right to return after a 45-year legal dispute.
lod4B TIL That most of Iceland's population is in North America. The North American and European tectonic plates meet in Iceland, and the majority of the country's population lives on the North American side.
mxlnx TIL that while the moon’s diameter is 400 times less than that of the sun, it’s also about 400 times closer to earth. That’s why solar eclipses happen to work out so well on earth.
bolj TIL Spongebob’s Bikini Bottom is based on the nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll during the 40’s and 50’s. Hence, radiation makes talking sponges and starfish.