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TIL There is an Island in the Bahamas Inhabited Only by Swimming Pigs

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WkA1B TIL the founder of Hyundai was born to an impoverished family of peasants in what is now North Korea. In 1998, he sent 1001 cows to his hometown in North Korea as a repayment 1000 times over for a cow that he stole in the early 1930s to afford his train ticket to Seoul and escape from poverty.
kO5W4 TIL that the name, Plastic Surgery, has nothing to do with the material and comes from the Greek word plastike (πλαστική) which means the art of modelling.
LpOQ TIL that derived from the Greek, the word ‘utopia’ literally means 'nowhere’.
0wJBj TIL In 1989, Russian psychic E. Frenkel was run over by a train while attempting to stop it with his psychic-biological power, after previously ‘successfully’ stopping a car and streetcar.
77ob TIL Depression in Young People Affects the Stomach. Anxiety effects the Skin.