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TIL that Madidi National Park in Bolivia may be most biologically diverse place on earth

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wLKbY TIL that in the nation of Papua New Guinea (population 8 million) there are 820 different spoken languages (complete languages, not dialects), which belong to 60 language families as different from each other as French and Chinese
v1Kpr TIL There are 2 missing nuclear bombs that fell into the Atlantic Ocean on July 28, 1957 and are roughly 100 miles away from Atlantic City, NJ.
ANR77 TIL Pope Alexander VI had not 6, but 9 children
LGeP TIL a Bill Ripken baseball card with the words “fuck face” written on the bat he’s holding went into circulation unnoticed.
kJaPW TIL that, contrary to the belief in “German efficiency”, the construction of a much-needed new airport in the country’s capital took 15 years to plan and 14 years to build due to poor planning, massive corruption, and egregious corporate and civil mismanagement