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TIL a documentary TV crew's search for exotic animals off of Australia's coast instead turned up a real-life island castaway

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8aGeX TIL that Yale graduate William Chester Minor, who became one of the largest contributors for the compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary by providing usages of words from his antiquated book collection, was a clinically insane murderer who cut off his own penis.
LkgaZ TIL There is a boiling river in Peru that kills everything that falls into it
XYDX TIL that a 73-year-old woman bought a painting from a thrift store for $5 only to later discover that, thanks to a fingerprint on the canvas, it was actually an unsigned Jackson Pollock worth millions of dollars.
ne8oP TIL that the oldest company still operating today Kongo Gumi, a Japanese construction company, that dates to 578 AD