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TIL of Orania: South Africa's only remaining whites only town

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PYk1e Til: A Minecraft realm named "The Uncensored Library" catalogues banned journalism worldwide in order to fight government censorship as the game is unbanned worldwide.
OoLWe Today I learned that in the 1880s, a young man named Larry Donovan attempted to make a living solely by jumping off high bridges. When he died at the age of 26, his mother was quoted in the newspaper saying: "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living."
kOw5g TIL Japan's love of salmon as a sushi staple is a result of a successful Norwegian marketing campaign in 1986
R7ar7 TIL in 1962 a bear was ejected from a B-58 jet bomber at 870 mph to test whether humans could survive supersonic ejections. The bear then floated down via parachute from 35,000 feet over the course of 7 minutes, where it landed unharmed.
X091j TIL of the Marikina Valley fault system. A fault system that passes through the densely populated Metro Manila.