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TIL learned about the Samaritans. It's a religion and there are less than a 1,000 in the world.

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WwEN TIL there is a common amoeba found in warm bodies of freshwater, and if insufflated (snorted) deeply into your sinus cavity, will begin to eat your optical nerve, move to your brain and eat that as well. Oh, and it has a fatality rate higher then the Ebola virus and the Bubonic plague.
KjEB TIL that in 1945 Japanese sailors once submerged a sub while 90 European prisoners including children were on deck, leaving them to be eaten by sharks.
Yp4AP TIL that a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy's in 2005
OGLKL TIL Wyoming, Idaho and Montana are Whack. In all three states it is legal to intentionally run over coyotes and kill them with a snowmobile. They call it whacking. WY and ID also allow wolves to be cruelly killed in this manor. Predator control is the excuse.
dDM0Z TIL that Sweden has the most number of islands in the world with 267,570 islands out of which 221,831 are named and only around 1000 of them are inhabited.