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TIL that Nicaragua has English-speaking islands

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ndmo TIL it is still illegal to join a Communist Party in the USA
WbP8 TIL that during the Russian famine of the 1920s, Government officials advised starving residents to dig up the dried bones of animals, grind them into flour and bake a “bread substitute [that has] a nutritive value of 25 per cent more than rye bread, in spite of its unpleasant smell and taste”.
rNWwM TIL about the Hart Island Project, which is aimed at listing and identifying bodies buried in mass graves at New York City’s mass burial cemetery on Hart Island. Each body has a clock that counts the minutes, hours, days, and years until each body is identified and their story is told.
kJ9GB TIL the mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Valentin Naboth deduced he was about to enter a period of danger. To hide, he stockpiled food and drink, closed his blinds, and locked his doors and windows. Some robbers came, thought the house was empty, broke in, saw Naboth there, and killed him.
GY8KN TIL that horses can grow mustaches...