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TIL Bishop Rock is a tiny island 4 miles off the coast of Cornwall, and its single lighthouse makes it the “world’s smallest island with a building on it”

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Z8YKB TIL that 'goodbye' is a contraction of the phrase 'God be with ye'
XYWk TIL Donkeys are used for political protest in Oman because there is no way police can look dignified catching them.
yMwe TIL that after Congressman John Rankin refused to sit next to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. because of the colour of his skin, Powell found every opportunity possible to sit close to the Mississippi Congressman. On one occasion Powell followed him from seat to seat until Rankin had moved five times.
wL0KY TIL Alanis Morissette laid down the vocals in one take and that the producer got Flea and Dave Navarro to lay down bass and guitar tracks, respectively, to enhance the rawness of the sound
8aPoG TIL - The "Thagomizer", the spiked tail on a stegosaurid dinosaur, didn't have an official name till the cartoonist Gary Larson did a comic about it, named it, and the scientific community just accepted it and started using it too.