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TIL: There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.

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kJve1 TIL one of flags of Six Flags represents the Confederacy
VvxQ TIL that during the 2005 French riots, up to 1408 cars were burned per night across the country. The government declared that the riots had ended when, after three weeks of chaos, only 98 cars were burned per night (“return to a normal situation everywhere in France”).
oLj7 TIL that the International Space Station has been connected to the regular terrestrial Internet since January 22, 2010 when the first unassisted tweet was posted
1VwX TIL that before Guns N'Roses, Slash once auditioned for the band Poison, he decided not to join when he was asked about wearing make up.
QNMvE TIL the defect that caused an Air France A330 to crash in 2009 was well-known by Airbus (as it had happened more than a dozen times on A330s with various airlines), however Airbus did not make any changes to their autopilot system until after there was a fatal crash.