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TIL Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world

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gJRD TIL that Colonel David Stirling, founder of the SAS, personally strangled 41 men.
neBYb TIL there is a group of single-celled organisms called Asgard archaea, Lokiarchaeum, named after the Arctic Ocean geothermal vent, Loki's Castle, where they were discovered. They are considered to be the missing link in the evolution of the cell, which separates eukaryotes like humans from bacteria.
WkNyY TIL Hawaii allows people to throw their beloved's ashes into their volcanos, as long as you pay a $25 permit and do it discreetly.
7nEp TIL conservatives and liberals can be identified with 70% accuracy based on brain scans
aJA TIL That physicists won the Nobel prize in 2010 for peeling graphene off pencils with scotch tape